Re: [boost] interest in a stats library?

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-04 18:20:43

On 2 Aug 2007, at 08:45, Chris Fairles wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone has started a statistical analysis library at
> all? Something I might be interesting in starting if not. It could
> include features such as:
>
> sample mean, alpha-trimmed mean, weighted-mean, geometric-mean,
> harmonic-mean, mode, median, midrange.
> mean deviation, sample std deviation, RMS, sample range,  
> interquartile range
> higher order sample moments
> maximum likelihood estimators (and other estimators for various
> distributions),

This should all be in the accumulator library, or very easy to add.

> confidence intervals,

can be added easily

> hypothesis testing
> linear regression, ANOVA even

should be no problem to add that on top of the accumulator and math  
toolkit libraries.

Matthias