Re: [MATH] what a commons-TLP split could look like

2016-06-20 Thread Patrick Meyer
After reading more about the proposed changes, I am now comfortable with dividing the library into separate components. However, I have two concerns. First, a package or class that passes unit tests should not be abandoned or depricated just because there is no one to support it. It should only be

RE: [Math] Commons Math (r)evolution

2016-06-10 Thread Patrick Meyer
I think it would be better to spend the time trying to recruit new contributors than it would be to alienate existing ones. Also, the effort required to divide the library into smaller parts would be better spent creating patches. Does anyone have ideas for actively recruiting contributors? Do

Re: [math] Name of the new TLP

2016-02-02 Thread Patrick Meyer
The Apache commons math library already has a reputation and is well kvown. Any name that does not involve the words Apache and math will require a lot of rebranding or years of explaining to people that the TLP named X is really just the library formerly known as commons math. Removing "commons" f

RE: [math] [POLL] new TLP name

2016-02-02 Thread Patrick Meyer
Apache Math -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 12:07 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: [math] [POLL] new TLP name Please select your top choice among the following suggested names for the new [math]-based TLP. All a

RE: [MATH-1120] Needed opinion about support on variations in percentile calculation

2014-05-21 Thread Patrick Meyer
There are various ways to compute percentiles and statistical programs use different methods by default. I would prefer that we do like R and provide multiple options for the type of percentile computation. See http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/quantile.html Patrick --

RE: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC3 (second run after mail outage)

2014-05-12 Thread Patrick Meyer
+1 -Original Message- From: Luc Maisonobe [mailto:l...@spaceroots.org] Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 5:56 AM To: Commons Developers List Subject: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC3 (second run after mail outage) Hi all, As I am not sure this message will be recovered after mail outage, I

RE: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC2

2014-05-01 Thread Patrick Meyer
+1 -Original Message- From: Thomas Neidhart [mailto:thomas.neidh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 12:16 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC2 Hi all, I would like to call a vote to release Commons Math 3.3 based on RC2. Changes since RC1:

RE: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC1

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Meyer
Thanks! -Original Message- From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:21 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC1 On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:30:37 -0400, Patrick Meyer wrote: > MATH-1092 appear to be unresol

RE: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on RC1

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Meyer
MATH-1092 appear to be unresolved but a path was submitted. Is it possible to include this patch in 3.3? -Original Message- From: Thomas Neidhart [mailto:thomas.neidh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:08 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Release Math 3.3 based on

RE: [math] trouble with SingularValueDecomposition

2014-02-16 Thread Patrick Meyer
nding singular vectors are also valid singular vectors. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > Thanks Ted. As I mentioned my knowledge of SVD is limited, and I was > not aware that it is OK to have a different order of the first two > columns in the results (or the co

RE: [math] trouble with SingularValueDecomposition

2014-02-15 Thread Patrick Meyer
s that the order of the corresponding left and right singular vectors are different and there are sign changes in the singular vectors. My guess is that you will get the same results in Apache Commons Math. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am

[math] trouble with SingularValueDecomposition

2014-02-14 Thread Patrick Meyer
Hi, I am using the SingularValueDecomposition class with a matrix but it gives me a different result than R. My knowledge of SVD is limited, so any advice is welcomed. Here's the method in Java public void svdTest(){ double[][] x = { {1.0, -0.05307180786272

Re: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters

2013-07-18 Thread Patrick Meyer
My vote was not directed toward the technical merits of the optimization package. I am not an expert on optimization and I trust you in this regard. My vote was a comment on the usability of the API. I find it to be increasing difficult to use. Maybe I have missed some refactoring, but why all

RE: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters

2013-07-18 Thread Patrick Meyer
>You have done a pretty good job in making the optimization package non-sensical to user. +1 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org

RE: [Math] Remove "BOBYQAOptimizer"

2013-01-01 Thread Patrick Meyer
Please do not remove BOBYQAOptimizer from CM. It works quite well for me. I have a function that takes two parameters. BOBYQAOptimizer finds the right solution. In 3.0 NonlinearConjugateGradientOptimizer (without the multiple starts) would never find the right solution. Now that I have switched to

RE: [math] Examples

2012-11-28 Thread Patrick Meyer
Hi Phil, I use various parts of Commons Math (CM) for a program I created for psychometrics called jMetrik, www.ItemAnalysis.com. It does a variety of statistical procedures from basic descriptive statistics to item response theory and test equating. jMetrik has a fairly large international user b

RE: [math] correlation analysis with NaNs

2012-11-20 Thread Patrick Meyer
rd wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2012/11/8 Gilles Sadowski : >>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 09:39:00AM +0100, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >>>>>>>>>&g

RE: [Math] MATH-894

2012-11-15 Thread Patrick Meyer
I misunderstood an earlier email and I though the compute method was public. It seems that adding a public compute method may be more complication and effort than it is worth. My apologies for the misunderstanding. The compute method would only be of value if it can be an easy addition. -O

RE: [Math] MATH-894

2012-11-15 Thread Patrick Meyer
aving. Patrick -Original Message- From: Gilles Sadowski [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:32 AM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [Math] MATH-894 Hi Patrick. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:38:07PM -0500, Patrick Meyer wrote: > Please keep ResizeableDoub

RE: [Math] MATH-894

2012-11-12 Thread Patrick Meyer
Please keep ResizeableDoubleArray as its own class. I find it very useful for more than descriptive statistics. I do like the idea of adding an apply method to it. Patrick -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:23 PM To: Comm

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution)

2012-10-18 Thread Patrick Meyer
-0400, Patrick Meyer wrote: > I vote for simplicity. Current practice in the social sciences is to > fit multiple models, each with a different number of components, and > use fit statistics to choose the best model. So... Do you vote for the current proposal (as in the latest attachment on

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution) . .

2012-10-18 Thread Patrick Meyer
I vote for simplicity. Current practice in the social sciences is to fit multiple models, each with a different number of components, and use fit statistics to choose the best model. There are some additional features I would like to see added and I have the code to contribute if it is not curren

RE: [Math] Toward releasing 3.0 ?

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Meyer
Looks great, thanks! -Original Message- From: Thomas Neidhart [mailto:thomas.neidh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:28 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [Math] Toward releasing 3.0 ? On 02/15/2012 02:41 PM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > OK, I submited a patch t

RE: [Math] Toward releasing 3.0 ?

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Meyer
7:46 AM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [Math] Toward releasing 3.0 ? On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:12:50PM +0100, Thomas Neidhart wrote: > On 02/14/2012 12:50 PM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > > I can document the StorelessCovariance addition. What is the best > > way to add document

RE: [Math] Toward releasing 3.0 ?

2012-02-14 Thread Patrick Meyer
I can document the StorelessCovariance addition. What is the best way to add documentation? Do I just add comments to the file and create a patch? -Original Message- From: Thomas Neidhart [mailto:thomas.neidh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:21 AM To: dev@commons.apache.or

Re: [math] psychometrics

2011-09-03 Thread Patrick Meyer
Ha ha... I was really hoping someone else would do all the hard work and write the MVN distribution function for me. On 9/3/2011 1:53 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 9/3/11 10:37 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: No, I have written very few tests. Until I recently discovered jUnit, I was using a very crude

Re: [math] psychometrics

2011-09-03 Thread Patrick Meyer
Sep 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: Sounds good. Separating the general purpose stats from the psychometric specific stats seems like a natural way to distinguish the two libraries. I'll send a link to the source code soon. Hopefully, you will see the good ideas in the code. On 9

Re: [math] psychometrics

2011-09-03 Thread Patrick Meyer
/11 7:19 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: Yes, the math code is separate from the GUI and database for the most part. I'd be happy to share the code and documentation, but I need a few days to add it to a repository and get it online. There are parts of my library that can be transferred to math wit

Re: [math] psychometrics

2011-09-02 Thread Patrick Meyer
Yes, the math code is separate from the GUI and database for the most part. I'd be happy to share the code and documentation, but I need a few days to add it to a repository and get it online. There are parts of my library that can be transferred to math with very few changes but other parts t

[math] psychometrics

2011-09-02 Thread Patrick Meyer
Hi All, I have been developing an pure Java application that does a variety of psychometric methods. I use the commons math library as much as I can but I've also had to develop my own library. I'd like to combine the two libraries by donating as much of my code to commons math as I can. My l

Re: [math] StorelessCovariance

2011-08-18 Thread Patrick Meyer
is an excellent community edition and Apache committers can get a full version. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Patrick Meyer wrote: OK, after fidgeting with NetBeans for too long without results, I went with Phil's suggestion and just used subversion at the command prompt. It was much e

Re: [math] StorelessCovariance

2011-08-17 Thread Patrick Meyer
OK, after fidgeting with NetBeans for too long without results, I went with Phil's suggestion and just used subversion at the command prompt. It was much easier than trying to configure NetBeans. I uploaded the patch this evening. It includes two new classes StorelessCovariance.java and Storel

[math] StorelessCovariance

2011-08-17 Thread Patrick Meyer
I am workin on the StorelessCovariance per jira MATH-449. However, I'm having a hard time using subversion via Netbeans. I have successfully created the new classes and a JUnit test. However, when I run the test I get the following message, "caused an ERORR: Absent Code attribute in method tha

Re: [math] Numerical derivatives in Commons Math

2011-08-12 Thread Patrick Meyer
Thanks for the information Luc. I didn't know those existed. I'm happy to keep the discussion at the implementation levels. On 8/12/2011 6:23 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: Le 12/08/2011 00:30, Patrick Meyer a écrit : I like the idea of adding this feature. What about an abstract

Re: [math] Numerical derivatives in Commons Math

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick Meyer
I like the idea of adding this feature. What about an abstract class that implements DifferentiableMultivariateRealFunction and provides the method for partialDerivative (). People could then override the partialDerivative method if they have an analytic derivative. Here's some code that I'm h

Re: [math] adding new classes

2010-12-09 Thread Patrick Meyer
Thanks. I think my problem may be an IDE issue. In Eclipse, I had no luck using New > Java Class, but I was able to use New > File. Is that normal? Sorry for the simple questions, but I really appreciate your help. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Gilles Sadowski < gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wro

Re: [math] adding new classes

2010-12-09 Thread Patrick Meyer
Excuse my typo, I meant to say if it is possible to add new classes via SUBVERSION, not substance. As I am new to subversion it seems that only patches for existing classes are possible. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > Is it possible to add new classes via substa

[math] adding new classes

2010-12-09 Thread Patrick Meyer
Is it possible to add new classes via substance patches? I have a storeless covariance class and other classes I would like to contribute. Thanks, Patrick

Re: [math] Frequency getUniqueCount

2010-12-07 Thread Patrick Meyer
Ted and Sebb, Thanks for all of the help! I look forward to submitting more contributions. Thanks, Patrick > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons

Re: [math] Frequency getUniqueCount

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Meyer
OK, I generated the patch file using Eclipse and it seems to have the information you described. I'm not sure if the revision part is correct though. The latest patch is named MATH-448.patch and it is now attached to the JIRA issue, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-448. I hope this latest

Re: [math] Frequency getUniqueCount

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Meyer
ight eventually.) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > How did you create this diff? > > The normal way is to use svn diff in the project root directory. > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > > > OK, I attached a diff file to, > &g

Re: [math] Frequency getUniqueCount

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Meyer
l a volunteer effort. Go ahead and volunteer! > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: > > > I have a small feature request for the org.apache.commons.math.stat > > Frequency class. It is often useful to know the unique number of elements > > in >

[math] Storeless covariance

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Meyer
There are now accurate algorithms for an incremental, storeless covariance that are extentions of West's algorithm for storeless variance. I submitted the algorithm and technical paper on its derivation in JIRA, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-449. It would be nice to have this added to

[math] Frequency getUniqueCount

2010-12-06 Thread Patrick Meyer
I have a small feature request for the org.apache.commons.math.stat Frequency class. It is often useful to know the unique number of elements in a frequency table. Would you add this feature? I submitted an issue with JIRA with the code needed to make this happen, https://issues.apache.org/jira/bro