On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 3:22:46 PM UTC+5:30, Léo El Amri wrote:
> On 17/03/2018 00:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
> > median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
> > medians in the face of NANs
On 16/03/18 23:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
> median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
> medians in the face of NANs in the data:
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue33084
>
> I would like to ask peo
On 17/03/2018 00:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
> median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
> medians in the face of NANs in the data:
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue33084
>
> I would like to ask p
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:41:01 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>> (4) median() should strip out NANs.
>
> Too much magic.
Statistically, ignoring NANs is equivalent to taking them as missing
values. That is, for the purposes of calculating some statistic (let's
say, median, although it applies to other
Ben Finney writes:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
> > (1) […] If there is a NAN in your data, the result of calling
> > median() is implementation-defined.
>
> This is the least Pythonic; there is no good reason IMO for specifying a
> behaviour in the implementation.
That's a confused statement. I
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> I would like to ask people how they would prefer to handle [the
> computation of median when the data set contains NaN]:
>
> (1) Put the responsibility on the caller to strip NANs from their
> data. If there is a NAN in your data, the result of calling median()
> is impl
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:08:42 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/16/2018 7:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
>> median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
>> medians in the face of NANs in the data:
[...]
On 3/16/2018 7:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
medians in the face of NANs in the data:
https://bugs.python.org/issue33084
I would like to ask people how the
The bug tracker currently has a discussion of a bug in the median(),
median_low() and median_high() functions that they wrongly compute the
medians in the face of NANs in the data:
https://bugs.python.org/issue33084
I would like to ask people how they would prefer to handle this issue:
(1) Put
