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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-1361:
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t-digest - love the name, Ted Dunning
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The name was an act of desperation. In presenting the results informally to
several friends, the term 1-d clustering just wasn't working at all. The
analogy with Q-digests was quite attractive and in a fit of weakness, I picked
t to be the letter to replace Q.
> Online algorithm for computing accurate Quantiles using 1-D clustering
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> Key: MAHOUT-1361
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1361
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Math
> Affects Versions: 0.9
> Reporter: Suneel Marthi
> Assignee: Suneel Marthi
> Fix For: 0.9
>
> Attachments: MAHOUT-1361.patch
>
>
> Implementation of Ted Dunning's paper and initial work on this subject. See
> https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest/blob/master/docs/theory/t-digest-paper/histo.pdf
> for the paper.
> An on-line algorithm for computing approximations of rank-based statistics
> that allows controllable accuracy. This algorithm can also be used to compute
> hybrid statistics such as trimmed means in addition to computing arbitrary
> quantiles.
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