fixing return types of some methods and updating their docstrings #325
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many methods were updating
self
instead of returning the value, this is bad practice as it is a side effect and means the order in which methods are run can change results. This also had direct impacts on the effort to refactor method docstrings asModifies
is not a section in the numpy format.Merging this PR in with #323 so that further docstring compliance can be done with the new method headers.