On 7/25/2014 8:48 AM, Maggie X wrote:
Thanks for looping me in, David! I don''t see Paul's email here though :)
Looks like a nice contribution. Is it going to involve PDL?
Best,
Maggie
Addresses (including mailing list) added to the mail.
-john
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:14 AM, David Mertens
<dcmertens.p...@gmail.com <mailto:dcmertens.p...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hey Paul,
Maggie Xiong, the author of PDL::Stats
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl-stats/>, may have an interest
in this work, and may also have a recommendation for a name. I've
CC'd her to help with any ensuing conversation. :-)
David
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:12 PM, John M Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com
<mailto:jgam...@ripco.com>> wrote:
On 7/22/2014 11:55 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:
I'm in the process of writing a Perl module that provides
a practical
implementation of the statistics language described at
http://ashishagarwal.org/2011/10/04/pdf-type-theory/ which
would
compile programs in that language to Perl objects that provide
->pdf($n), ->cdf($n), and ->rand() methods (providing the
probability
density at $n, the cumulative probability for $n, and a
random number
generated by a given script in that language, respectively).
Right now, I'm pondering the name
Statistics::Language::BAVC (the
initials of the authors of the paper).
If anyone's got any better ideas, now's your chance to
speak up.
I've just skimmed the paper. Even though they don't have a
name for their own technique, it seems risky to just name it
out of the blue.
Have you tried contacting the authors and asking if they've
come up with a term?
I agree that Statistics::Language is probably the prefix to
use for your module.
-john
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