Steven D'Aprano added the comment: On 09/08/13 21:49, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> I think that the argument `m` to variance, pvariance, stdev and pstdev > should be renamed to `mu` for pvariance/pstdev and `xbar` for > variance/stdev. The doc-strings should carefully distinguish that `mu` > is the true/population mean and `xbar` is the estimated/sample mean > and refer to this difference between the function variants. Good thinking, and I agree. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18606> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
