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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-04-23 07:06:35 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-04-23 07:06:35 (GMT)
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bpo-36546: Add statistics.quantiles() (#12710)
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@@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ Added :func:`statistics.geometric_mean()`
Added :func:`statistics.multimode` that returns a list of the most
common values. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`35892`.)
+Added :func:`statistics.quantiles` that divides data or a distribution
+in to equiprobable intervals (e.g. quartiles, deciles, or percentiles).
+(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36546`.)
+
Added :class:`statistics.NormalDist`, a tool for creating
and manipulating normal distributions of a random variable.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`36018`.)