[Qgis-developer] Loading raster stats: grass/gdal slowdown?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:50:34PM +0100, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> I agree with Giuseppe, stats by default should be calculated in at
> most 5% of pixels,
> although there should be a tool to calculate full stats and save them.
> A random 5% sample is actually a better estimate of the real min,max,
> because most of the time
> you do not hit outliers because they a re rare by definition.

+1 for random % (even better if parametrizable)

--strk;