On 11/16/06, Eric Niebler <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Chris Weed wrote:
On 11/16/06, Eric Niebler <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
My framework for incremental statistical accumulation is ready for review. Here is the overview:
<snip>
This library looks cool. I hope you don't mind some feedback, but I would suggest not calling histogram, "density". Why not call it "histogram"? Chris
I don't have an answer for you right now. This library represents the work of several people, some of whom have a deep statistical background. I am not one of them -- this statistic was written by someone else. I'll make a note to make sure this question is answered during the review, if not before.
Thanks for your interest.
Just to follow up. I probably should have mentioned the reason for my comment. There are several ways to estimate a pdf, of which a histogram is one of them. Another example is kernel density estimation. I think it would be nice to differentiate your estimator as a histogram by name. Chris