On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:27, cjkogan111<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > I am a statistics graduate student interested in working on sympy for > a thesis project.
A Master's thesis? > I thought it would be interesting to try to give the > statistics module some of the features of mathstatica (an addin for > mathematica.) The department I am part of seems concerned about: > a) Lack of a stateable thesis > b) Lack of an advisor knowledgeable in this area > c) Topic does not seem it would lead to publishing in a journal > > Does anyone have any advice? Do you think it is reasonable / > unreasonable? If your project is to simply replicate the features of mathStatica, I think your department's concerns are fairly valid. You may want to consider finding a more focused project that has some more novelty. For example, take a look at the ARVAG group which has made algorithms for automatic non-uniform random variate generation of semi-arbitrary PDFs. http://statmath.wu.ac.at/projects/arvag/index.html I say semi-arbitrary PDFs because most of the techniques have a limited range of applicability, e.g. uni-modal PDFs which are convex under such-and-such transformation. What I don't think anyone has done yet is to apply a CAS to these various aspects of applying the transformations, checking convexity, finding the mode, etc. Implementing such a thing in sympy would be a nice, focused project that would have a stateable thesis and would be publishable. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
