[GRASS-dev] Some proposition on r.neighbour (new code)

[Jarosław Jasiewicz]

Glynn Clements pisze:
> Jarosław Jasiewicz wrote:
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>>>> I have two propositions on r.neighbour:
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>>>> 1) add existing method "range" to existing methods of r.neighbors
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>>>> 2) add new method "percentile" and add it to existing method of r.neighbours
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>>> Both seem reasonable, although I'm not keen on the name of the second. 
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>>> 1. It's likely to be confused as being similar to quart1, quart3,
>>> perc90 and quantile (quantile would have been named percentile if it
>>> used values in the range 0-100 rather than 0-1).
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>> maybe name "quantile" will be better,
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> method=quantile already exists; it calculates the value at an
> arbitrary quantile specified by the quantile=... option. The following
> pairs of commands are equivalent:
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> r.neighbors method=quantile quantile=0.25 / r.neighbors method=quart1
> r.neighbors method=quantile quantile=0.50 / r.neighbors method=median
> r.neighbors method=quantile quantile=0.75 / r.neighbors method=quart3
> r.neighbors method=quantile quantile=0.90 / r.neighbors method=perc90
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> In general, where a module offers a quantile (percentile, quartile,
> etc) option, the quantile is chosen by the user and the value at that
> quantile is returned, so using the terms percentile or quantile alone
> in this case may lead to confusion.
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> OTOH, I don't have any suggestions as to a better name.
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maybe relative position? or relative and description "relative position 
to neigbor cells"
J.