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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by lettuce on Saturday September 09, 2017 @04:45PM (#15209076)
For such basic functionality, is there any reason not to just use Python 3's `statistics` module?

  from statistics import mean, median, stdev, variance
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Re:Introduction to Statistics using NumPy by jzwinck on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:16PM (#15209620)
Two reasons. First is that NumPy works in Python 2 as well as 3.

Second is that everyone uses NumPy for this. It is proven, it is fast, and using it for simple things is a great way to get started on a path toward using it for more complex things. For example I use NumPy for tabular text processing sometimes, as it is much faster than the built-in stuff if you have a lot of data.

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