Fix some typos in stats docs
Speed-up of quantity initialisation
Change try/except to if statement that checks for more specific problem
Further speedup: no local import(!), return whenever ready
Make Quantity initialisation of Quantity even faster
Add entry to CHANGES.rst
io.ascii LaTeX table writer: add tablealign to latexdict

fixes #1777
update CHANGES.rst
Fix a problem that caused MaskedColumn.__getitem__ to not preserve column metadata. This required adding a workaround for a bug in Numpy which causes MaskedArray.__getitem__ to not call __array_finalize__. Fixes #1471.
Partial fix for #1849.  Ignore the endianess markers in Numpy dtype strings.
Minor repr() and str() formatting tweak for dimensionless Quantities: Don't insert a superfluous space after the value if there is no unit.
Added changelog entry
Merge pull request #1824 from cdeil/stats_docstrings

Fix some typos in stats docs
Merge pull request #1772 from embray/quantity-formatting-nit

Minor repr() and str() formatting tweak for dimensionless Quantities
Fix doctests after their breakage in #1772
Merge pull request #1856 from mdboom/docs/fix-doctests-quantity-spaces

Is doctest ELLIPSES not on by default any more?
Also fix behavior for MaskedColumn with ``take`` and added regression test
Added docstring for MaskedColumn.take based on numpy.ndarray.take
Added tests for scalar take and also added tests for using np.take as a function
Ensure arguments to take get passed through