Steven D'Aprano writes: > using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of > functionality would be useful to you? > > For example: > > - evenly-spaced quantiles (say, at 0.25, 0.5, 0.75)?
Yes. > - unevenly-spaced quantiles (0.25, 0.8, 0.9, 0.995)? Rarely. > - one quantile at a time? Yes. > - any specific definition? My students' data is qualitative survey (Likert scale or categorical) or government-issue, "any" is "good enough for gov't work". > - quantiles of a distribution? You mean the inverse of the cumulative distribution function? Very rarely. > - anything else? Not that I can think of. Thank you for this addition! Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
