Thanks for your quick reply. Your suggestion is great. I will give a definitions and description for the spatial statistic functions and comparison with ordinary statistic models.
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:56:06 -0500 > Subject: Re: How to contribute a spatial module to MADlib manipulating > objects from PostGIS > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hi ChenLiang, > > I think your proposal is good and worth trying to do it! > > Can I suggest the first steps if you send a proposal of the function > definitions and the parameters and return values as well as description of > the functions and what they do. > > Based on that we can discuss the design of the interface and once it looks > good you can start working on the actual implementation of the coding. > When you get to implementation we can help you on technical challenges. > > Cheers, > Ivan > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:50 PM, 王晨 亮 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi MADlib Developers, > > > > > > > > > > I am a GIS Researcher and have some knowledge on PostGIS, Python, > > C/C++,Java and R. > > > > > > > > I have learned some spatial statistical models during My PhD research in > > GIS. Recently, I have done a job translating GWR (Geographical Weighted > > Regression) from R into Java for my company. And I would like to > > contribute to MADLib if possible. I believe PostGIS and MADlib are the > > most powerful extensions of PostgreSQL . Therefore, a spatial statistical > > module connecting the two libraries could be significant . If I can start > > the task , the first goal to implement will be GWR model. > > > > > > > > Now I am reading the developer guide of MADlib. I not quite sure how to > > contribute a geospatial module to MADlib. Is it possible to manipulate > > spatial object or attribute from PostGIS in MADlib ? > > > > > > > > So could anyone suggest a few pointers & links that I can follow to get > > to know: > > > > > > > > 1. how to deal with these dependencies about MADlib? > > > > > > > > 2. whether the spatial statistics module is suitable for MADlib？ > > > > > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > > > ChenLiang Wang > > > >
