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When discussing python, the authors missed the elephant in the room: numpy. When almost any statistical work is done in python, we use numpy arrays, sometimes
by blokeley 9y ago
When discussing python, the authors missed the elephant in the room: numpy.
When almost any statistical work is done in python, we use numpy arrays, sometimes via the pandas or statsmodels etc. libraries. We seldom use native python types.
- simonbyrne 9y agoThis was from 2008: NumPy existed but it was pretty early days (and a pain to install). I'm not sure if pandas had started at that point.