Closed as not planned
Description
I'm working on adding array API support in scipy.stats (scipy/scipy#20544) and one of the the things I'll need is a quantile function. If there is some support for this idea, I'll convert this issue into a proper proposal.
Looks like there is already wide support:
numpy.quantiletorch.quantilecupy.quantilejax.numpy.quantiledask.dataframe.DataFrame.quantiletfp.stats.quantilesxarray.DataArray.quantile
Previous discussions (not much):
- Proposal to standardize basic statistical functions #10 (comment)
- Behavior of reductions on empty arrays should be specified #232 (comment)
There are many conventions for calculating quantiles. Only a few methods would be required by the standard, and if choice of a default is too contentious, perhaps the array-API can consider method to be a required keyword argument, and libraries would be welcome to keep their own default.