[issue28956] return minimum of modes for a multimodal distribution instead of raising a StatisticsError

[Srikanth Anantharam]

Srikanth Anantharam added the comment:

A better choice would be to return a tuple of values (sliced from the
table). And let the user decide which one to use.

Hope that's justifiable...

Thanks & Regards
Srikanth Anantharam
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https://sria91.github.io/

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On 13-Dec-2016 2:20 PM, "Wolfgang Maier" <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Wolfgang Maier added the comment:
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> What's the justification for this proposed change? Isn't it better to
> report the fact that there isn't an unambiguous result instead of returning
> a rather arbitrary one?
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