On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:39 PM, PLIQUE Guillaume <guillaumepli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Sorry if this subject has already been covered in the mailing list but I > could not find it. > > My question is very simple: should the `quantile` function be added to > python `statistics` module.
This seems like a reasonable idea to me -- but be warned that there are actually quite a few slightly-different definitions of "quantile" in use. R supports 9 different methods of calculating quantiles (exposed via an interesting API: their quantile function takes a type= argument, which is an integer between 1 and 9; the default is 7). And there's currently an open issue at numpy discussing whether numpy implements the right approaches: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/10736 So this would require some research to decide on which definition(s) you wanted to support. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
