On 9/10/11 11:02 AM, Greg Sterijevski wrote:
> One more question, if the request list is null, what is the proper return? A
> null or is an exception returned?
IAE
Phil
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Greg Sterijevski
> <gsterijev...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Another mostly exceptional question from me! In the
>> interface UpdatingMultipleLinearRegression, we have regress() and
>> regress(int[] variablesToInclude).
>>
>> 1. What is the appropriate exception to throw when there is a variable
>> index in the array which does not exist in the data? For example I have
>> regressors 0 to 4. The user requests variables 0, 2 and 7. Is it still a
>> ModelSpecificationException? If so what is appropriate text? "Request for
>> index {0} cannot be fulfilled because the data has only {1} independent
>> variables"
>>
>> 2. Say that the request list ( the integer array variablesToInclude ) has a
>> request that looks like int[]{ 1, 4, 2 }. In the Miller regression, I
>> attempt to return things in the canonical order. Would it make better sense
>> to have an element in the RegressionResults object which records the
>> canonical position of the regressor and returns the result in arbitrary
>> order?
>>
>> 3. In the call to regress() what is the proper manner in which to handle a
>> case where no result can be returned? Say that the user has supplied nothing
>> but NaNs in the data. There is nothing that can be done. What is the proper
>> exception? Is it fair to return just a null?
>>
>> 4. Should any of these regression techniques (whether they implement
>> UpdatingMultipleRegression or not) check the (input) data for things like
>> NaN or Inf? If so, what is the exception to throw? Is there any other
>> parallel with other classes in Math?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Greg
>>
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