[SciPy-Dev] Deprecate stats.glm?

[Warren Weckesser]

josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Warren Weckesser
> <warren.weckesser at enthought.com> wrote:
>   
>> stats.glm looks like it was started and then abandoned without being
>> finished.  It was last touched in November 2007.  Should this function
>> be deprecated so it can eventually be removed?
>>     
>
> My thoughts when I looked at it was roughly:
> leave it alone since it's working, but don't "advertise" it because we
> should get a better replacement.
>   

How does one not advertise it?

The docstring is wrong, incomplete, and not useful.  It has no tests.  
Currently, it appears that it just duplicates ttest_ind.  As far as I 
know, no one is working on it.

Leaving it in wastes users' time reading about it.  It erodes confidence 
in other functions in scipy:  "Is foo() a good function, or has it been 
abandoned, like glm()?"

To me, it is an ideal candidate for removal.


Warren

> similar to linregress the more general version will be available when
> scipy.stats gets the full OLS model.
>
>   
>>>> x = (np.arange(20)>9).astype(int)
>>>> y = x + np.random.randn(20)
>>>> stats.glm(y,x)
>>>>         
> (-1.7684287512254859, 0.093933208147769023)
>   
>>>> stats.ttest_ind(y[:10], y[10:])
>>>>         
> (-1.7684287512254859, 0.093933208147768926)
>
> In the current form it doesn't do much different than ttest_ind except
> for different argument structure.
>
> I think it could be made to work on string labels if _support.unique
> is replaced by np.unique (which we are doing in statsmodels)
>
>   
>>>> x = (np.arange(20)>9).astype(str)
>>>> x
>>>>         
> array(['F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'F', 'T', 'T', 'T',
>        'T', 'T', 'T', 'T', 'T', 'T', 'T'],
>       dtype='|S1')
>   
>>>> stats.glm(y,x)
>>>>         
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#24>", line 1, in <module>
>     stats.glm(y,x)
>   File "C:\Josef\_progs\Subversion\scipy-trunk_after\trunk\dist\scipy-0.8.0.dev6416.win32\Programs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py",
> line 3315, in glm
>     p = _support.unique(para)
>   File "C:\Josef\_progs\Subversion\scipy-trunk_after\trunk\dist\scipy-0.8.0.dev6416.win32\Programs\Python25\Lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\_support.py",
> line 45, in unique
>     if np.add.reduce(np.equal(uniques,item).flat) == 0:
> AttributeError: 'NotImplementedType' object has no attribute 'flat'
>
> Josef
>
>   
>> Warren
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