Why does scipy stats describe does not have median?
I cannot speak for the scipy stats.describe people, but the general answer is this: mean, variance, and even kurtosis can be computed in one or two O(n) passes through the data, while median requires an O(n*log(n)) sort.
It might be a naive question but I couldn't find a reasonable answer. Why the median is not included in the return of stats.describe ? Even kurtosis is included but why not median ?
Thanks