On 6/3/13 12:06 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: > On 06/03/2013 04:10 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: >> On 6/3/13 4:18 AM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> to start working on the Monte Carlo engine (see MATH-463) I would like to >>> break this thing up in multiple pieces. One thing that could be added >>> independently is the concept of a stochastic process (e.g. Wiener, >>> BrownianMotion, ...). >> +1 >>> The code in the contribution is already a pretty good start, but the >>> question would be where to put it. We do not yet have a stochastic base >>> package, and random is also not such a good fit imho. >>> >>> I see various options: >>> >>> - random.process: well it models a random process ... >> random was originally intended to just house random data generation >> stuff. I would see stochastic processes as logical clients of the >> generators in random, but I see the logic here. >>> - stochastic.process: downside of adding another top-level package >> It think this is probably the best. I tend to favor shallow and >> wide over deep and narrow because it makes it easier to find things >> and leads to less head-scratching about why things are where they >> are. What are the other stochastic.x that you have in mind? > I would also prefer this, but currently I do not have a clear idea of > other packages that would reside beneath stochastic.
I don't either, which is why I asked. What comes to mind immediately is .simulation; but I am not sure you actually end up with that (different sorts will go with the actual techniques used) or .optimization (but that stuff is already in the optimization package). Phil > >>> - stat.process: well, statistics is a sub-group of stochastic so it would >>> not be perfect >> He he. A probabilist, I assume :) What you probably really mean is >> probability.stochastic.process, probability.stat.*. Too deep for me :) > yes, I would not propose something like that ;-). > > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
