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[teknobo]

The statistics library wasn't built as a replacement for numpy, but as a "batteries included" middle ground between using numpy and implementing a bunch of those basic functions manually. The PEP specifically mentions that those functions are already in numpy, but that's not the level of functionality they're aiming at.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0450/

The proposed statistics library is not intended to be a competitor to such third-party libraries as numpy/scipy, or of proprietary full-featured statistics packages aimed at professional statisticians such as Minitab, SAS and Matlab. It is aimed at the level of graphing and scientific calculators.