Closed
Description
Pandas version checks
- I have checked that the issue still exists on the latest versions of the docs on
main
here
Location of the documentation
https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.testing.assert_frame_equal.html
Documentation problem
When atol
and rtol
are used, the check of equality between two dataframes is of the form absolute(a - b) <= (atol + rtol * absolute(b))
.
It's not clear that atol
and rtol
are used together like this, resulting in it being unclear what exact is being checked.
Suggested fix for documentation
Expand the explanation of atol
and rtol
in the documentation, possibly explicitly including the equation that is testing equality.