Calling it range is another option sense .. min/max reminds me of optimization.
-Ajo On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org>wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:50:38 -0400, Konstantin Berlin wrote: > >> Depending on the size of the array, due to caching, it might be faster to >> do a single pass and compute min and max at same time. >> > > A new "MinMax" statistics might be created in "o.a.c.m.stat.descriptive.** > rank". > Then such a field could be added to "o.a.c.m.stat.descriptive.** > DescriptiveStatistics". > > > Is there a function that would compute min and max on an comparable >> collection? >> > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/**7/docs/api/java/util/** > Collections.html#max(java.**util.Collection)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#max(java.util.Collection)> > > > Gilles > > > >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 7/23/13 10:17 AM, Ajo Fod wrote: >>> > You mean find the difference between StatUtils.min() and max() on >>> elements >>> > of an array? >>> >>> Duh, that would do it :) >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Phil >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> I need a function that computes the maximum difference between >>> >> elements of an array. Any objections to adding this to MathArrays? >>> >> >>> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
