Re: [boost] Accumulators review

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-30 17:08:08

On 30 Jan 2007, at 20:07, Paul A Bristow wrote:

>
> PS and about your torture test - I don't think this should be the  
> focus of the review.
>
> There are horses for courses, and the not-always-accurate version  
> should be fine for most applications.
> (If the data are going to be as unreasonable as the torture data  
> are, one could argue that they are wrong!
>
> and that there should have never have been used to calculate a  
> simple mean etc anyway - it needs a robust mean?).

The accumulator library can easily extended by more robust estimators.