[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats improvements

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Abraham Escalante <aeklant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great, Thanks!
>
> I think this will be invaluable for the scope definition phase which is
> critical for me. Do you mind if I add you to the discussion on the issues
> once I feel more adequately equipped to understand the specific functions?
>

I'm still monitoring all scipy.stats issues and PRs, even if I don't get
involved anymore each time.

Josef



>
> Abraham.
>
> 2015-03-15 13:08 GMT-06:00 <josef.pktd at gmail.com>:
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Abraham Escalante <aeklant at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Josef,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback. I love to see there is some interest in the
>>> project.
>>>
>>> I find very compelling your suggestion about *verifying against R
>>> functions* and it sounds like a great use of my time to get more and
>>> more familiarised with the `scipy.stats` module in general. However, I am
>>> fairly new to the community, *do you have a good tutorial or
>>> interesting reading on how I could start with that?*
>>>
>>
>> If you don't know R already, then you should work your way at least
>> through parts of some R tutorials, there are many but I don't have any
>> recommendation.
>> It's also possible to work through Rpy2 and look at ipython notebooks
>> that use Rpy.
>>
>> For comparison with scipy.stats you mainly need simple functions, so you
>> don't need to know a lot of the "more complicated" things in R.
>>
>> What I usually do is to search with Google or in R help for the name of a
>> hypothesis test, for example, and then run a simple example both in R and
>> in python and compare the results. If the results differ, then we need to
>> check whether the R and python versions use the same options. algorithm or
>> assumptions.
>> At the current state of scipy.stats it is now unlikely that the
>> difference is just a bug (except maybe in some corner cases).
>>
>> Josef
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The scope of the functions will definitely vary depending on the issue,
>>> but I do not yet have the domain knowledge to be able to tell for each of
>>> them, which is exactly why I find your suggestion interesting. I am going
>>> to use the next few months to get up to speed and I would love some
>>> pointers from interested community members such as yourself.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Abraham.
>>>
>>>
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