stats
Languages and libraries
statistics library
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Well tested, high quality package.
From 2 comments
I've been using this package for awhile now and I can attest to the quality: It is great! It has powerful and easy to use statistics tools which IMHO should've been included in…
jaytaylor on HNNicely done. Is returning error common in go (as opposed to raising)?
djs070 on HN
Statistics tools should have been in the standard library.
From 1 comment
I've been using this package for awhile now and I can attest to the quality: It is great! It has powerful and easy to use statistics tools which IMHO should've been included in…
jaytaylor on HN
Objections
Example output had errors in Round and Median, since fixed.
From 2 comments
Regarding your examples, shouldn't Round return 3.17 and shouldn't Median be 3.5?
fogleman on HNYou are correct, it's been fixed with this commit[1]. My excuse is it was late when I added those output comments. 1.…
anonfunction on HN
Coverage is line-based only, no branch coverage.
From 1 comment
The coverage seems to be only line-based. I don't know if it's relevant for Go, but you might want to see how the coverage looks like for branch-based analysis (if Go has…
Mithaldu on HN
Requests
Contributions to statistics work in Gonum.
From 2 comments
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but if you're interested in help buliding statistical tools for go, Gonum is always looking for more hands. Look at what we have in…
howeman on HNIf you're interested in developing more stats stuff, we'd love to have you as part of the effort. gonum/stat/dist in particular needs a lot more functionality.
howeman on HN
Better documentation and a centralized docs location.
From 1 comment
Why are these all separate repos? And is there any centralized documentation? Can't find any.
fogleman on HN
Questions
Whether returning errors is common in Go rather than raising exceptions.
From 1 comment
Nicely done. Is returning error common in go (as opposed to raising)?
djs070 on HN
What the next steps for the project are.
From 1 comment
This seems like a really cool project to hack on. I noticed you have no issues on the github repo, but where do you want to go with it next? Or what would you like more eyes on?
faitswulff on HN
Alternatives named
Gonum statistics packages.
From 2 comments
Gonum has many of these capabilities, but with a slightly different mentality (gonum has weights and sticks to pure []float64 while this defines types and methods, i.e.…
howeman on HNI mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but if you're interested in help buliding statistical tools for go, Gonum is always looking for more hands. Look at what we have in…
howeman on HN
GNU GSL Statistics.
From 1 comment
Thanks for your interest! I think the biggest thing to do is finalize the public API and release v1.0.0. I started with only functions but have since added types, so I'd like to…
anonfunction on HN