[SciPy-user] information on statistical functions

[David Cournapeau]

josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
>
> I compared the doc strings for np.var and np.std. np.std is very brief
> on biasedness, and I think the sentence in np.var is relatively
> neutral, neither doc string mentions the word unbiased. Your reference
> to "unbiased" and "sample" estimator might be useful for users that
> are not so familiar with the statistical background. After your
> explanation, I would think it would be better to drop any reference to
> biasedness in np.std. On the other hand, the scipy doc strings still
> need a lot of cleaning and writing.
>   

Those functions are deprecated in 0.7, so this should not be too much of
a concern.

David