[SciPy-Dev] mstats.linregress return values (#1273)

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > stats.linregress returns five values: slope, intercept, r_value, p_value,
> > sterr.
> > mstats.linregress should return the same according to its docstring (and
> my
> > expectation), but adds a sixth return value: Syy/Sxx, not clear what for.
> We
> > can either document the return value, or just remove it. I'd think the
> > latter makes more sense.
> >
> > Ralf
>
> +1 for the correction.
>
> OK, fixed in r6953.

Ralf



> I had once reported this at
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/40651/match=return+values+stats+mstats+linregress
> but haven't gotten any response --probably due to posting at
> numpy-discussion list instead of scipy-dev as you did.
>
>
> --
> Gökhan
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