On Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:34 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <
stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Mertz, Ph.D. writes:
> > > NANs do not necessarily represent missing data.
>
> > I think in the context of `stats` they do. But this is color of
> bikeshed, and I defer to you, of course.
>
> I have a
On 28.08.2021 14:33, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 8/28/21 6:23 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
>> To me, the behavior looked a lot like stripping NANs left and right
>> from the list, but what you're explaining makes this appear even more
>> as a bug in the implementation of median() - basically wrong
On 8/28/21 6:23 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> To me, the behavior looked a lot like stripping NANs left and right
> from the list, but what you're explaining makes this appear even more
> as a bug in the implementation of median() - basically wrong assumptions
> about NANs sorting correctly.
On 28.08.2021 05:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 09:36:27AM +0200, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Indeed. The NAN handling in median() looks like a bug, more than
>> anything else:
>
> [slightly paraphrased]
> l1 = [1,2,nan,4]
> l2 = [nan,1,2,4]
>>
>
On 28.08.2021 07:14, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> SciPy should probably also be a data-point, it uses:
>
> nan_policy : {'propagate', 'raise', 'omit'}, optional
>
>
> +1
>
> Also +1 on a string flag, rather than an Enum.
Same here.
Codecs use strings as well: 'strict',
On Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 1:58 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 01:36:33AM -0400, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> > I like the statsmodels spelling better: missing : str; Available options
> > are ‘none’, ‘drop’, and ‘raise’
>
> NANs do not necessarily represent missing data.
>
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