[math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

[Mark R. Diggory]

I have several modifications I'm planning to make, but in the spirit of 
consensus I want to propose them and attempt to get some agreement. So 
math developer opinions on the subject would be good.

1.) o.a.c.math.stat.distributions --> o.a.c.math.distributions

Gives this package a more "generic" position to hold more than just 
"stat" distributions.

2.) Like in my last emails concerning "Univariate" I would like to, (and 
have done so in my checkout successfully) Make the following Class changes:

interface o.a.c.m.stat.StoreUnivariate -->
           abstract class o.a.c.m.stat.DescriptiveStatistics
this actually becomes a factory class and uses Discovery to instantiate 
new instances of the following implementations

*default implementation*
o.a.c.m.stat.StoreUnivariateImpl -->
          o.a.c.m.stat.univariate.StatisticsImpl
*alternate implementations*
o.a.c.m.stat.UnivariateImpl -->
          o.a.c.m.stat.univariate.StorelessStatisticsImpl
o.a.c.m.stat.ListUnivariateImpl -->
          o.a.c.m.stat.univariate.ListStatisticsImpl
o.a.c.m.stat.BeanListUnivariateImpl -->
          o.a.c.m.stat.univariate.BeanListStatisticsImpl
The benefit of this is that the Alternate Implementations can all be 
instantiated from the o.a.c.m.stat.DescriptiveStatistics factories 
newInstance(...) methods. Thus alternate implementations of 
DescriptiveStatistics can be written as Service Providers and set in the 
environment/JVM configuration. We can now write SP's for other tools 
like Matlab, Mathematica, JLink, C++ libraries, R, Omegahat ... the list 
goes on and on...

Someday, I'd like to see this design extended for Bivariate Statistics 
and Regression Classes. Eventually for Random Number generation as well.

-Mark

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Mark Diggory
Software Developer
Harvard MIT Data Center
http://osprey.hmdc.harvard.edu
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