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optimize.leastsq() documentation should mention it does not work with NaNs #3491

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ankostis opened this issue Mar 26, 2014 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3929
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optimize.leastsq() documentation should mention it does not work with NaNs #3491

ankostis opened this issue Mar 26, 2014 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3929
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Documentation Issues related to the SciPy documentation. Also check https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org good first issue Good topic for first contributor pull requests, with a relatively straightforward solution scipy.optimize
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In the documentation of the leastsq function, there should be a sentence regarding the handling NaNs. Otherwise, the fitting might fail to calculate the parameters just because the data contain null/nan values, and the user will be clueless as to why this has happened.
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Added a warning about leastsq using with NaNs.
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