[Scipy-svn] r2353 - trunk/Lib/stats

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Author: oliphant
Date: 2006-12-05 13:50:48 -0600 (Tue, 05 Dec 2006)
New Revision: 2353

Modified:
   trunk/Lib/stats/continuous.lyx
   trunk/Lib/stats/morestats.py
Log:
Add a link to a paper which explains the bayes_mvs code.

Modified: trunk/Lib/stats/continuous.lyx
===================================================================
--- trunk/Lib/stats/continuous.lyx	2006-12-05 19:32:01 UTC (rev 2352)
+++ trunk/Lib/stats/continuous.lyx	2006-12-05 19:50:48 UTC (rev 2353)
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
 Median and mode
 \layout Standard
 
-The mean, 
+The median, 
 \begin_inset Formula $m_{n}$
 \end_inset 
 

Modified: trunk/Lib/stats/morestats.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/Lib/stats/morestats.py	2006-12-05 19:32:01 UTC (rev 2352)
+++ trunk/Lib/stats/morestats.py	2006-12-05 19:50:48 UTC (rev 2353)
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@
 ###  Bayesian confidence intervals for mean, variance, std
 ##########################################################
 
+##  See the paper "A Bayesian perspective on estimating
+##    mean, variance, and standard-deviation from data
+##    at http://dspace.byu.edu/bitstream/1877/438/1/bayes_mvs.pdf
+##    (Permanent link at http://hdl.handle.net/1877/438 )
+
 # assume distributions are gaussian with given means and variances.
 def _gauss_mvs(x, n, alpha):
     xbar = x.mean()