[Numpy-discussion] ENH: ratio function to mimic diff

[Stephan Hoyer]

This is an interesting idea, but I don't understand the use cases for this
function. In particular, what would you use n-th order ratios for?

One use case I can think of is estimating the slope of a log-scaled plot.
But here exp(diff(log(x))) is an easy substitute.

I guess ratio() would work in cases where values are both positive and
negative, but again I don't know when that would be useful. If your signal
crosses zero, ratios are likely to diverge.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:25 PM Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz <
jfoxrabinovitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have created PR#9481 to introduce a `ratio` function that behaves very
> similarly to `diff`, except that it divides successive elements instead of
> subtracting them. It has some handling built in for zero division, as well
> as the ability to select between `/` and `//` operators.
>
> There is currently no masked version. Perhaps someone could suggest a
> simple mechanism for hooking np.ma.true_divide and np.ma.floor_divide in as
> the operators instead of the regular np.* versions.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> Regards,
>
>     -Joe
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