[SciPy-Dev] deprecating stats.pdf_fromgamma

[Warren Weckesser]

On 12/13/14, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I ran into stats.pdf_fromgamma again. That function, which does
> Gram-Chandler expansion to construct a distribution from 4 moments, is
> completely undocumented and untested. Statsmodels seems to be a better
> place to put this kind of functionality in, and it already contains the
> closely related Edgeworth expansion. See
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/699 for more details.
>
> Therefore the proposal is to deprecate pdf_fromgamma for 0.16.0. Any
> objections?
>


No objection.  Deprecate away...

Warren


> Ralf
>