Accessing the internal functions to get the tables of returns provides returns that are unscaled and misleading, something that is handled and abstracted away in the top-level API of Alphalens with the tear sheets. It could be helpful to perform a similar handling and return the tables directly in the top-level API so that custom views of returns (quarterly, monthly, half-yearly, etc) can be made with unbiased information.
Accessing the internal functions to get the tables of returns provides returns that are unscaled and misleading, something that is handled and abstracted away in the top-level API of Alphalens with the tear sheets. It could be helpful to perform a similar handling and return the tables directly in the top-level API so that custom views of returns (quarterly, monthly, half-yearly, etc) can be made with unbiased information.