No statistics or math module in core?

Markus Mottl markus.mottl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 15:54:14 GMT 2012


True, it surprisingly seems that Spearman hasn't been implemented in GSL yet.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found Pearson correlation in GSL [1] but don't see Spearman.
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> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Correlation.html
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Markus Mottl <markus.mottl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > We have these in Biocaml.Math, which is not a great place for them. It
>> > would
>> > be nice for OCaml to have some math/statistics libraries. OCaml-R has a
>> > binding to R's math library, but there isn't a stable release.
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>> There are two libraries that should mostly address your needs for math
>> and statistics: lacaml and gsl-ocaml:
>>
>>   https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/lacaml
>>   https://bitbucket.org/mmottl/gsl-ocaml
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>> The first one interfaces most of BLAS/LAPACK, which are the de-facto
>> standard for heavy-duty linear algebra (vector and matrix operations,
>> factorizations, eigenproblems, solving equations and least-squares
>> problems, etc.).
>>
>> gsl-ocaml interfaces most of the GNU Scientific Library, which is
>> probably the most widely used open source library for that purpose.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Markus
>>
>> --
>> Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus.mottl at gmail.com
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