[SciPy-Dev] Name for Page's L test

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:10 PM Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:53 AM Warren Weckesser <
> warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Matt Haberland has implemented Page's L test in the pull request
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12531.  I'd like to merge the PR,
>> but Ralf has suggested that the name, `pagel`, is "a terrible name",
>> and has suggested `page_test` or `page_l_test`. (See the comments at
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12531#pullrequestreview-447123727.)
>> Matt's reasoning for `pagel` is that it is consistent with the style
>> used for many other tests in stats.  I don't have a strong preference,
>> and when that happens in such a case, I tend to go with the original
>> author's preference.  I think Ralf prefers to have "test" in the name.
>> Some existing tests do, but many others don't.
>>
>> Anyone else have an opinion?  Either about this specific case, or
>> about the general question of  objective criteria for a "good" name?
>>
>
> Wikipedia suggests that it is also known as Page's trend test, which might
> make for a more informative function name.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%27s_trend_test
>

Counterpoint: "The Page test is not a trend test"

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cultevo/vignettes/page.test.html

-- 
Robert Kern
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