[SciPy-Dev] Design of scipy.stats

[David Goldsmith]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

I knew the issue sounded familiar; I'll have to go back and read that thread
more thoroughly.


> As for why it was written this way: I don't know
>

Well, thanks to Robert, now we do. :-)

DG


>
> Josef
>
> >
> > DG
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > DG
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 13:22, David Goldsmith
> >> >> <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:12 AM, David Huard <
> david.huard at gmail.com>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> <X>_gen is a class and <X> an instance of that class.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> David H.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > So which is a user expected to use?
> >> >>
> >> >> The latter.
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Robert Kern
> >> >>
> >> >> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
> >> >> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it
> as
> >> >> though it had an underlying truth."
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> >> > uncertainty
> >> > set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.
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> her
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-- 
Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.

Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
by Robert Graves)
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