-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Brook Milligan Sent: 02 May 2007 19:10 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] [Probability] interest in probability/likelihood library
This note is to announce the release of a library for handling probability and likelihood quantities, together with their logarithms, in a consistent and (when desired) transparent manner. Ultimately, I think this could be useful to the Boost community (e.g., it may find application within the recently reviewed math toolkit or be useful together with the recently accepted units library, from which it draws certain ideas). I would however appreciate feedback on that point, as well as on ways to improve its design, implementation, or documentation. What follows is an overview, and an indication of a couple of areas I know I need help with. More information is also available at
http://biology.nmsu.edu/software/probability
The code may be downloaded at
ftp://biology.nmsu.edu/pub/software/probability/probability-0.1.tar.gz
At a very quick glance this has obvious benefits (though quite how big those benefits are is less clear to me at this glance). I have put on my TODO list seeing how this code plays with the recently accepted math toolkit and statistical distributions. But it might be more useful if *you* tried to combine these two - if not the units library as well ;-) (The final toolkit version will not appear until the 1.35 release, of course, but a version is available in the sandbox - but it has recently 'escaped' to SVN and I haven't regained access to it yet. You will also need the Boost 1.34 release too). Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com