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Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/861#discussion_r37527495
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+htmlTitle: FlinkML - Statistics
+title: <a href="../ml">FlinkML</a> - Statistics
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+## Description
+
+ The statistics utility provides features such as building histograms over
data.
+
+## Methods
+
+ The Statistics utility provides two major functions: `createHistogram` and
+ `createDiscreteHistogram`.
+
+### Creating a histogram
+
+ There are two types of histograms:
+ 1. **Continuous Histograms**: These histograms are formed on a data set
`X: DataSet[Double]`
+ when the values in `X` are from a continuous range. These histograms
support
+ `quantile` and `sum` operations. Here `quantile(q)` refers to a value
$x_q$ such that $|x: x
+ \leq x_q| = q * |X|$. Further, `sum(s)` refers to the number of
elements $x \leq s$, which can
+ be construed as a cumulative probability value at $s$[Of course,
*scaled* probability].
+ 2. A continuous histogram can be formed by calling
`X.createHistogram(b)` where `b` is the
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What's the meaning of the bins?
> Implement an online histogram with Merging and equalization features
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-2030
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2030
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Machine Learning Library
> Reporter: Sachin Goel
> Assignee: Sachin Goel
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: ML
>
> For the implementation of the decision tree in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1727, we need to implement an
> histogram with online updates, merging and equalization features. A reference
> implementation is provided in [1]
> [1].http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume11/ben-haim10a/ben-haim10a.pdf
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