-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Troyer Sent: 30 January 2007 22:08 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Accumulators review
On 30 Jan 2007, at 20:07, Paul A Bristow wrote:
PS and about your torture test - I don't think this should be the focus of the review.
There are horses for courses, and the not-always-accurate version should be fine for most applications. (If the data are going to be as unreasonable as the torture data are, one could argue that they are wrong!
and that there should have never have been used to calculate a simple mean etc anyway - it needs a robust mean?).
The accumulator library can easily extended by more robust estimators.
Indeed - its strength is that it is a framework ready for such extensions. Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com