scikit-learn/scikit-learn — pull request #2176 by turian (2013-07-21 23:03:23+00:00)
Title: Added code for sklearn.preprocessing.RankScaler

I wrote code for doing rank-scaling. This scaling technique is more robust than StandardScaler (unit variance, zero mean).

I believe that "scale" is the wrong term for this operation. It's actually feature "normalization". This name-conflicts with the "normalize" method, though.

I wrote documentation and tests. However, I was unable to get the doc-suite or test-suite to build for the current sklearn HEAD, so I couldn't double-check all my documentation and tests.