Specify behavior of statistical reductions over the empty set #262
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This PR
specifies the behavior of statistical reductions when the number of elements over which to compute a reduction is zero and resolves gh-232.
Notably, this PR proposes
max
: implementation-defined (due to no consistent maximum value across all supported data types).mean
: returnNaN
.min
: implementation-defined (due to no consistent minimum value across all supported data types).prod
: return1
(empty product).std
: returnNaN
.sum
: return0
(empty sum).var
: returnNaN
.