Re: [Twisted-Python] Reviewer who understands basic numeric algorithms wanted

2009-09-21 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Laurens Van Houtven wrote: > Hello :-) > > > > twisted.positioning has just (read: last night) grown a new module, > called util, which has two functions I needed for statistical > analysis: the error function (erf) and the inverse normal cumulative > distribution

Re: [Twisted-Python] Reviewer who understands basic numeric algorithms wanted

2009-09-18 Thread exarkun
On 04:17 pm, l...@laurensvh.be wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:07 PM, wrote: On 12:50 pm, l...@laurensvh.be wrote: Hello :-) Please think up a better name than "util". :) �How about "statmath" or "errorstats" or something along those lines? This sounds like a good idea. While we're on t

Re: [Twisted-Python] Reviewer who understands basic numeric algorithms wanted

2009-09-18 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:07 PM, wrote: > On 12:50 pm, l...@laurensvh.be wrote: >>Hello :-) > Please think up a better name than "util". :)  How about "statmath" or > "errorstats" or something along those lines? This sounds like a good idea. While we're on that topic, regarding package location

Re: [Twisted-Python] Reviewer who understands basic numeric algorithms wanted

2009-09-18 Thread exarkun
On 12:50 pm, l...@laurensvh.be wrote: >Hello :-) > >twisted.positioning has just (read: last night) grown a new module, >called util, which has two functions I needed for statistical >analysis: the error function (erf) and the inverse normal cumulative >distribution function (Phi). Please think up

Re: [Twisted-Python] Reviewer who understands basic numeric algorithms wanted

2009-09-18 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
Oh, and I might drop the Scipy implementation entirely (except for unit testing as a reference implementation). Turns out that the scipy version, while probably being more precise (precise way beyond the point of being interesting for most uses), is a good deal slower than approximation, by a facto