Inclusion of the uncertainties package
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Description
Hullo again, your friendly neighbourhood pedant here...
I've been having a look at the uncertainties package: https://pythonhosted.org/uncertainties/
which despite the info on that page is available from conda: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/uncertainties
It seems a well written piece of code which would give us access to a standard way to calculate errors in all analyses, avoiding the dangers of everyone defining their own propagation formulae (always dangerous) and depending on their level of pedantry omitting terms or not....
It provides functions to define via covariance matrices and wrappers to let user defined/third party functions work with the value+error variables it provides and it plays well with numpy.
Thoughts?
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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points and asks for discussion rather than a defined change. Start by determining whether the project wants to adopt uncertainties and which analysis and dependency locations would be affected; done would require an agreed integration scope and validation plan.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100