Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:45:47 +0100

> From: Sebastian Berg <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Adding weights to cov and corrcoef
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <1394037947.21356.20.camel@sebastian-t440>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> in Pull Request https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/3864 Neol Dawe
> suggested adding new parameters to our `cov` and `corrcoef` functions to
> implement weights, which already exists for `average` (the PR still
> needs to be adapted).
>

Do you mean adopted?


> However, we may have missed something obvious, or maybe it is already
> getting too statistical for NumPy, or the keyword argument might be
> better `uncertainties` and `frequencies`. So comments and insights are
> very welcome :).
>

+1 for it being "too baroque" for NumPy--should go in SciPy (if it isn't
already there): IMHO, NumPy should be kept as "lean and mean" as possible,
embellishments are what SciPy is for.  (Again, IMO.)

DG
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