lmo 0.7.0

L-Moments for robust statistics.

Lmo - Trimmed L-moments and L-comoments

Is your tail too heavy? 
Can't find a moment? 
Are the swans black? 
The distribution pathological?

... then look no further: Lmo's got you covered!

Uniform or multi-dimensional, Lmo can summarize it all with one quick glance!

Unlike the legacy moments, L-moments uniquely describe a probability distribution. The "L" stands for Linear; it is a linear combination of order statistics. So Lmo is as fast as sorting your samples (in terms of time-complexity).

Even if your data is pathological like Cauchy, and the L-moments are not defined, the trimmed L-moments (TL-moments) can be used instead:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> import lmo
>>> rng = np.random.default_rng(1980)
>>> x = rng.standard_cauchy(96)  # pickle me, Lmo
>>> x.mean(), x.std()  # don't try this at home
(-1.7113440959133905, 19.573507308373326)
>>> lmo.l_loc(x, trim=(1, 1)), lmo.l_scale(x, (1, 1)) 
(-0.17937038148581977, 0.6828766469913776)

For reference; the theoretical TL-location and TL-scale of the standard Cauchy distribution are $\lambda^{(1, 1)}_{1} = 0$ and $\lambda^{(1, 1)}_2 \approx 0.7$ (Elamir & Seheult, 2003).

Key Features:

• Calculates trimmed L-moments and L-comoments, from data and distributions.
• Exact non-parametric variance structure of the sample estimates.
• Coming soon: Robust distribution fitting; the method of L-moments.
• Complete docs, including overly complex $\TeX$ spaghetti equations.
• Clean Pythonic syntax for ease of use.
• Vectorized functions for very fast fitting.
• Fully typed, tested, and tickled.

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See the documentation for usage examples and code reference.

Installation

Lmo is on PyPI, so you can do something like:

pip install lmo

Dependencies

• python >= 3.10
• numpy >= 1.22
• scipy >= 1.9

Foundational Literature

• J.R.M. Hosking (1990) – L-moments: Analysis and Estimation of Distributions using Linear Combinations of Order Statistics
• E.A.H. Elamir & A.H. Seheult (2003) – Trimmed L-moments
• E.A.H. Elamir & A.H. Seheult (2004) – Exact variance structure of sample L-moments
• J.R.M. Hosking (2007) – Some theory and practical uses of trimmed L-moments
• R. Serfling & P. Xiao (2007) – A contribution to multivariate L-moments: L-comoment matrices
• W.H. Asquith (2011) – Univariate Distributional Analysis with L-moment Statistics
• C. Dutang (2017) – Theoretical L-moments and TL-moments Using Combinatorial Identities and Finite Operators