[ruby-core:65025] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #10228] Statistics module

The Ruby/GSL gem provides a Ruby interface to GSL which provides a great =
deal of statistical functionality and much more besides.  Maybe that =
would meet your needs?

On Sep 13, 2014, at 3:56 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

> Issue #10228 has been updated by Robert A. Heiler.
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> I concur that statistics would be useful.
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> For bioinformatics I am forced to use R (http://www.r-project.org/) =
right now.
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> Hopefully I can one day replace all of why I have to use R with Ruby =
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> biggest problem are not the routines/methods or algorithms but =
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> plotting options).
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> A gem can showcase what can be done with statistics addon.
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> A require line could then be:
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>  require 'math/statistics'
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> or just
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>  require 'statistics'
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> MS Excel / Libreoffice have quite a lot of standard statistic =
functions.
> AVG() or AVEDEV() or AVERAGEA() and so forth.
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> Just giving a bit feedback, don't take me too seriously. :)
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> Feature #10228: Statistics module
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10228#change-48891
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> * Author: gogo tanaka
> * Status: Feedback
> * Priority: Normal
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> * Category:=20
> * Target version:=20
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> I'm gonna implement some features related with statistics to `Math` =
module now.
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> Like that  -> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10225
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> But I am afraid that `Math` module becomes too complex and suppose =
such a feature should be apart from `Math` module's responsibility.
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> So I'd like to propose Ruby provides Statistics module. (There are =
plenty of room for discussion.)
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> As you know, python3.4 has already started to provide `Statistics` =
module as Standard Library.
> (However these are not enough, I am impressed and think that is =
awesome trying.)
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> I want `Statistics` module which has the features of python's =
`Statistics` module and some functions related with numerical analysis.
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> It should be helpful to make people we couldn't reach so far have =
interest in Ruby.
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> And it is important to provide as "core or standard library".
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> But I know there are so many reasons we should not do that, so I want =
to hear your opinion.
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> Thank you.
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