Thanks Robert & Ondrej, I appreciate the helpful comments. I think that might be a good idea to focus, even though what I think would be most helpful to the community is just to make a general stat module. Cheers, Clark
On Jun 24, 1:16 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:27, cjkogan111<cjkogan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey, > > I am a statistics graduate student interested in working on sympy for > > a thesis project. > > A Master's thesis? > > > I thought it would be interesting to try to give the > > statistics module some of the features of mathstatica (an addin for > > mathematica.) The department I am part of seems concerned about: > > a) Lack of a stateable thesis > > b) Lack of an advisor knowledgeable in this area > > c) Topic does not seem it would lead to publishing in a journal > > > Does anyone have any advice? Do you think it is reasonable / > > unreasonable? > > If your project is to simply replicate the features of mathStatica, I > think your department's concerns are fairly valid. You may want to > consider finding a more focused project that has some more novelty. > For example, take a look at the ARVAG group which has made algorithms > for automatic non-uniform random variate generation of semi-arbitrary > PDFs. > > http://statmath.wu.ac.at/projects/arvag/index.html > > I say semi-arbitrary PDFs because most of the techniques have a > limited range of applicability, e.g. uni-modal PDFs which are convex > under such-and-such transformation. What I don't think anyone has done > yet is to apply a CAS to these various aspects of applying the > transformations, checking convexity, finding the mode, etc. > Implementing such a thing in sympy would be a nice, focused project > that would have a stateable thesis and would be publishable. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless > enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as > though it had an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
