RE: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters

2013-07-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 2:21 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters. . The discussion about how to get something into commons when it is (a) well documented and (b) demonstrated better on at least some

[math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am wondering if something will replace the deprecated CurveFitter classes? I looked around on the mailing list and Jira but did not see anything. I am looking to fit a curve to 3d points. Is there a better option in Commons Math? I have not settled on a fit/cost function and

RE: [math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gilles, Yes, I was. Thanks for the directions. Thanks, Jared -Original Message- From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:16 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [math] CurveFitter Classes. . On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:49 -0500, Becksfort

[math] Expectation Maximization Code Location

2013-03-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I recently submitted some code for the fitting of multivariate normal mixture model distributions to data using the Expectation Maximization algorithm. I placed the code in the o.a.c.m.optimization.fitting package. Gilles wonders if it would make more sense to have it in the

RE: [math] Checkstyle

2013-03-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Neidhart a écrit : On 03/19/2013 08:43 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: On 03/19/2013 08:18 PM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: Hi Jared, Le 19/03/2013 17:14, Becksfort, Jared a écrit : Hello, I am using the Apache Common XML file to format my code submissions in Eclipse. Gilles says my last submission has

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-15 Thread Becksfort, Jared
-Original Message- From: Becksfort, Jared Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:28 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [math] Scaling arrays. . On 3/11/13 8:21 AM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: Hi Phil, What exactly *is* it and what are the use cases? Just a method to multiply each

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-15 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Patches just applied. Many thanks. One small thing that will make it easier in the future is to create patches from the top-level /trunk directory. Thanks! Phil OK, will do. Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/consultationdisclaimer

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
be broadly applicable enough to just be put in the MathArrays class. Jared -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 2:19 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [math] Scaling arrays. . On 3/8/13 12:14 PM, Becksfort, Jared

[math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-08 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I may be missing it somewhere, but I am surprised there is no function for scaling arrays in MathArrays.java or somewhere else. - Am I stupidly missing it? - Is there a reason it is not in there? - Shall I add it? Thanks, Jared

RE: [math] Question regarding use of CM - who is using it?. .

2013-01-31 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I have used CM in statistics and medical image processing. - For image processing, I have used the threed geometry package to help me determine planes of maximum symmetry in 3D human MRI and CT scans. - For statistics, I am using code that I contributed (after feedback from Gilles) in

RE: [math] Math-817 and .equals questions. .

2012-11-09 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Any thoughts on the below email? If not, I will submit one patch, probably today or tomorrow. --- Hello, I am about to submit some code for issue Math-817 involving fitting multivariate normal mixture models using the EM algorithm. In order to simplify the unit

[math] Math-817 and .equals questions

2012-11-07 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am about to submit some code for issue Math-817 involving fitting multivariate normal mixture models using the EM algorithm. In order to simplify the unit test, I added overrode equals and hashCode. This in turn required me to make a few changes to code in the previously resolved

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution)=?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =

2012-10-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
? = On 10/18/12 8:55 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:59:22AM -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: On 10/18/12 1:41 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:26:55PM -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: On 10/17/12 8:36 PM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: I see. I am planning to submit

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution)=?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =

2012-10-17 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Ted, I am not sure I understand the problem with the fixed number of components. My understanding is that CM prefers immutable objects. Adding a component to an object would require reweighting in addition to modifying the component list. A new mixture model could be instantiated using the

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution) =?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =. .

2012-10-17 Thread Becksfort, Jared
at 7:31 PM, Becksfort, Jared jared.becksf...@stjude.org wrote: Ted, I am not sure I understand the problem with the fixed number of components. My understanding is that CM prefers immutable objects. Adding a component to an object would require reweighting in addition to modifying

RE: [math] Formatting

2012-08-23 Thread Becksfort, Jared
[...] Think about it from the standpoint of a new contributor. How long does it take to prepare and get a patch committed for a) the new contributor and b) the committer who ends up applying the patch. More rules means more time. It is that simple. Either the new contributor has to keep

RE: My vote for release

2012-08-01 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gary, I have wondered about the public scoping of arrays myself for that same reason. I also write image processing code, and the arrays can be quite large, especially if the processing is in three dimensions. Jared -Original Message- From: Gary Lucas [mailto:gwlu...@sonalysts.com]

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-27 Thread Becksfort, Jared
, 2012 11:18 AM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:00:44AM -0500, Becksfort, Jared wrote: I have another question, this time about the API. The covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-27 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gilles, I think it will be difficult (for me, at least) to provide a general method for testing sampling across all multivariate distributions. I imagine it can be done, but I would prefer for now just to make it an abstract method and expect the writers of future multivariate distribution

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-25 Thread Becksfort, Jared
but mentioned covariance matrix in the comments. Do the developers here have a preference between getSigma and getCovarianceMatrix? I can change the parameters accordingly. Jared -Original Message- From: Becksfort, Jared Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:29 PM To: Commons Developers List

[math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-24 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am working on submitting code for multivariate normal distributions, including sampling and unit tests (issue Math-815). It is my first submission, and it has had some issues with style and other guidelines. Gilles has given me some useful feedback about several pieces, but I

RE: [Math] Random tests sometimes fail (r1363105)

2012-07-22 Thread Becksfort, Jared
That is a good idea. I will add that to the multivariate normal distribution unit tests that I recently sent. From: Gilles Sadowski [gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:44 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: [Math] Random tests

[Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am ready to submit code patches for a few tickets. I will email the patches to JIRA. They include unit tests. Do I just email the NOTICE file also, or do I have to include it in the patch file somehow? Thanks, Jared Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
That may have been a dumb question. I was thinking there were multiple NOTICE files, but apparently there is only one. I guess it can be part of the patch unless I hear otherwise from someone on the list. Jared From: Becksfort, Jared [jared.becksf

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:11 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [Math] NOTICE file On 7/18/12 9:02 PM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: That may have been a dumb question. I was thinking there were multiple NOTICE files, but apparently there is only one. I guess it can be part of the patch

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Phil, Will do. Thanks for clarifying. Jared From: Phil Steitz [phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:48 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [Math] NOTICE file On 7/18/12 9:35 PM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: My employer requires

RE: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model

2012-07-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
to retain copyright, and we give the ASF non-exclusive copyright as well. Is this correct? My company is also generally requires that I place our name somewhere near the top of the comments. Does this work for you? Thanks, Jared -Original Message- From: Becksfort, Jared [mailto:jared.becksf

RE: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model

2012-07-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
be where I plan to submit it anyway. Thanks, Jared From: Luc Maisonobe [luc.maison...@free.fr] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:11 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model On 11/07/2012 18:34, Becksfort, Jared

RE: [math]

2012-07-10 Thread Becksfort, Jared
. multivariate Normal distribution in one submission), and create an issue as described at http://commons.apache.org/math/issue-tracking.html . If you run into any problems, please do not hesitate to ask on this mailing list. Cheers, Mikkel. 2012/7/9 Becksfort, Jared jared.becksf...@stjude.org: Hello

[math]

2012-07-09 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I have implemented some classes for multivariate Normal distributions, multivariate normal mixture models, and an expectation maximization fitting class for the mixture model. I would like to submit it to Apache Commons Math. I still have some touching up to do so that they fit the