[SciPy-Dev] welcome Evgeni Burovski to the scipy team

[Anthony Scopatz]

Welcome!


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:13 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:28 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Welcome and keep up the good work !
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Warren Weckesser
> > <warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> On behalf of the scipy developers I'd like to welcome Evgeni Burovski
> as
> >>> a member of the core dev team. Evgeni has (among other things) spent a
> lot
> >>> of effort over the last months on making the statistical distributions
> more
> >>> user-friendly and accurate:
> >>> http://www.ohloh.net/p/scipy/contributors/21026013018665. I'm sure
> more good
> >>> stuff will follow:)
>
>
> Welcome Evgeni,
>
> I'm very glad we have Eveni working on scipy.
>
> Besides interface, numerical and other improvements, Evgeni extended
> the test suite to entropy and moments, and fixed the bugs in the
> individual distributions. Longstanding incorrect results in entropy
> and higher moments, skew and kurtosis are or will be soon gone.
> That was the last big gap in the cleanup of the stats.distributions
> that was left.
>
> (There are still 153 issues and PRs open for scipy.stats right now.
> So, we won't run out of work anytime soon. :)
>
> Josef
>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Ralf
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Welcome aboard, Evgeni!  Thanks for all the great work so far.
> >>
> >> Warren
> >>
> >>
> >>>
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