[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STATISTICS-6?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17959725#comment-17959725
]
Alex Herbert commented on STATISTICS-6:
---------------------------------------
{quote}Shouldn't this be named {{BinomialConfidenceInterval}} ?
{quote}
Yes.
{quote}But then the {{ConfidenceInterval}} interface becomes a (trivial)
"interval", or actually just a "pair of numbers".
{quote}
True. We could return a pair as a {{{}double[]{}}}. Use of an interface is more
self documenting. But without the confidence level it could be named
{{{}Interval{}}}. I think this is fine to have in an {{interval}} package.
I do not think we require the bloat of having two methods to create the
interval. The current Math API uses confidence level as a fraction. Online
literature uses it as a percentage. Either way, if we keep this method the API
would be:
{code:java}
public interface Interval {
double getLowerBound();
double getUpperBound();
}
public enum BinomialConfidenceLevel {
AGRESTI_COULL,
CLOPPER_PEARSON,
NORMAL_APPROXIMATION,
WILSON_SCORE;
public Interval fromErrorRate(
int numberOfTrials, int numberOfSuccesses, double alpha);
public Interval fromConfidenceLevel(
int numberOfTrials, int numberOfSuccesses, double confidenceLevel);
}
{code}
> Package "o.a.c.math4.stat.interval"
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: STATISTICS-6
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STATISTICS-6
> Project: Commons Statistics
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Gimo
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: design, documentation, port
>
> Porting "confidence interval" functionality from "Commons Math".
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.20.10#820010)
