Quite a few changes related to creating dropout rate whilst ignoring
large gaps.  Seems to work now ;)

* started nilmtk.exceptions and added TooFewSamplesError
* added a bunch of assert statements in the stats
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:nilmtk/nilmtk

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