[lutusp]

> Statistics is way too easy to break to be used naively.

Fair enough, but the same argument could be made about using an unskewed standard distribution on non-symmetrical datasets, a common error even among people who should know better.

I think binomial functions should be included, on the ground that they're very useful and their probability of misuse is only equal to the continuous statistical forms, not more so.

[dandellion]

Hell, sometimes they use a dictionary when they should be using a list. Almost everything can be used wrongly by a begginer, which doesn't mean it shouldn't be there.

I think having a basic stats module always handy would be very convenient.

[lutusp]

> I think having a basic stats module always handy would be very convenient.

I absolutely agree. My only point was that these tools are sometimes misapplied, not at all to argue that they shouldn't be readily available. They should be.

[gknoy]

While you are correct, it sounds like his point was that even to someone moderately skilled it is easy to make a mistake that makes your work __completely__ invalid, rather than merely inefficient or too-complicated.