[ruby-core:65026] [ruby-trunk - Feature #10228] Statistics module

Issue #10228 has been updated by David MacMahon.


 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.
 > 
 > 
 > I concur that statistics would be useful.
 > 
 > For bioinformatics I am forced to use R (http://www.r-project.org/) right now.
 > 
 > Hopefully I can one day replace all of why I have to use R with Ruby (I guess the
 > biggest problem are not the routines/methods or algorithms but actually those 
 > plotting options).
 > 
 > A gem can showcase what can be done with statistics addon.
 > 
 > A require line could then be:
 > 
 >  require 'math/statistics'
 > 
 > or just
 > 
 >  require 'statistics'
 > 
 > MS Excel / Libreoffice have quite a lot of standard statistic functions.
 > AVG() or AVEDEV() or AVERAGEA() and so forth.
 > 
 > 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
 > 
 > * Author: gogo tanaka
 > * Status: Feedback
 > * Priority: Normal
 > * Assignee: 
 > * Category: 
 > * Target version: 
 > ----------------------------------------
 > I'm gonna implement some features related with statistics to `Math` module now.
 > 
 > Like that  -> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10225
 > 
 > But I am afraid that `Math` module becomes too complex and suppose such a feature should be apart from `Math` module's responsibility.
 > 
 > So I'd like to propose Ruby provides Statistics module. (There are plenty of room for discussion.)
 > 
 > 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.)
 > 
 > I want `Statistics` module which has the features of python's `Statistics` module and some functions related with numerical analysis.
 > 
 > It should be helpful to make people we couldn't reach so far have interest in Ruby.
 > 
 > And it is important to provide as "core or standard library".
 > 
 > But I know there are so many reasons we should not do that, so I want to hear your opinion.
 > 
 > Thank you.
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Feature #10228: Statistics module
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10228#change-48894

* Author: gogo tanaka
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
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I'm gonna implement some features related with statistics to `Math` module now.

Like that  -> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10225

But I am afraid that `Math` module becomes too complex and suppose such a feature should be apart from `Math` module's responsibility.

So I'd like to propose Ruby provides Statistics module. (There are plenty of room for discussion.)

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.)

I want `Statistics` module which has the features of python's `Statistics` module and some functions related with numerical analysis.

It should be helpful to make people we couldn't reach so far have interest in Ruby.

And it is important to provide as "core or standard library".

But I know there are so many reasons we should not do that, so I want to hear your opinion.

Thank you.



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