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Author steven.daprano
Recipients Yoni Lavi, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, steven.daprano, taleinat, vstinner
Date 2019-12-20.10:02:54
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I agree with Raymond's comments, except that because I'm sometimes a bit
of a pedant, I have to make one minor correction: max and min can be
descriptive statistics.

The sample minimum is the 1st order statistic, and the sample maximum is
the N-th order statistic:

https://www2.stat.duke.edu/courses/Spring12/sta104.1/Lectures/Lec15.pdf

This doesn't invalidate the rest of what Raymond says.

Yoni Lavi, thank you for the suggestion, but I'm going to close this ticket. If you think you have a really strong argument for the feature, please feel free to make it here, and we will rethink the closure. But I don't want to give you false hope: it would have to be a very strong argument.
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