Open castillohair opened 8 years ago
In general, I agree with this idea, although I feel like it may not change much.
Practically speaking, I think this would require redoing the interface between fitting functions and mef.get_transform_fxn
.
mef.get_transform_fxn
can continue to ignorantly just pass the fitting data to the fitting function.
Oleg suggested that the standard curve fits could be improved if some measure of estimation uncertainty of the population statistic be used as part of a weighted least squares regression method during the standard curve fitting step. For example, if the statistic of population
x
is the mean, the uncertainty is given bystd(x)/sqrt(n)
.Two things that would have to be addressed as part of this issue:
mef.get_transform_fxn
. Right now, statistic calculation and standard curve fitting are separate steps that share only one single number resulting from the statistic calculation step. @JS3xton