No statistics or math module in core?

Francois Berenger francois.berenger.working at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 02:39:59 GMT 2012


On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:00:14 AM UTC+9, Francois Berenger wrote:
>
> Yes, I noticed this also very recently.
>

Let's do something about it:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37728 

>
> 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> 
>> 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> 
>> > wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarw... 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. 
>> >> 
>> >> 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 
>> > 
>> > 
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus... at gmail.com 
>>
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