# Range (statistics)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/range-statistics/92518>\
**Category:** Statistics\
**Tags:** function\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/range-statistics/92518 "2023-01-04T18:59:09Z")\
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Can you take a look at `Base.extrema` and see if you can tell what, if anything, is wrong with it, performance-wise?

Because I really think the right approach is to use `extrema` for this, and fix any problems there.

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