No statistics or math module in core?

Francois Berenger francois.berenger.working at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 01:00:14 GMT 2012


Yes, I noticed this also very recently.

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:54:16 AM UTC+9, Markus wrote:
>
> True, it surprisingly seems that Spearman hasn't been implemented in GSL 
> yet. 
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarw... at gmail.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > I found Pearson correlation in GSL [1] but don't see Spearman. 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Correlation.html 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Markus Mottl <markus... at gmail.com<javascript:>> 
>
> > wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarw... at gmail.com<javascript:>> 
>
> >> 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. 
> >> 
> >> 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 
> >> 
> >> 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... at gmail.com<javascript:> 
> > 
> > 
>
>
>
> -- 
> Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus... at gmail.com<javascript:> 
>
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