2011/10/4 Alexandre Gramfort <[email protected]>:
>> I think that I would favor changing it so that it returns -log(p) (yay,
>> another API breakage :$ ).
>
> not really convinced as for permutations you're unlikely have numerical
> underflows.
>
> and I prefer - log10(p) for p-values.

I prefer just straight probabilities when p-values are promised.
Besides, everywhere else where we use probabilities we return e-logs.

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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