[SciPy-dev] Homogenizing stats & mstats

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2009/7/24 Pierre GM <pgmdevlist@gmail.com>:
> * A second step would be to use numpy.ma under the hood, returning
> either a MaskedArray if the input is a MaskedArray itself, or just a
> standard ndarray otherwise. That should take care of the functions
> related to ranking and tie handling (I'm pretty confident into the
> mstats routines, and we can always double-check the results w/ R). If
> needed, we could also add a usemask flag, like we do in
> np.io.genfromtxt.

Would the patch suggested by Darren be useful here?  I imagine it would.

Regards
Stéfan