[Haskell-cafe] Re: Math.Statistics

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, ChrisK wrote:

> ok wrote:
>> There are a number of interesting issues raised by mbeddoe's
>> Math.Statistics.
>>
>>     data (Floating a, Ord a)
>>       => Simple_Continuous_Variate a
>>        = SCV [a] Int a a (Array Int a)
>>
>>     list_to_variate xs = SCV xs n m s o
>>       where n = length xs
>>             m = sum xs / fromIntegral n
>>             s = sum [(x - m)^2 | x <- xs] / fromIntegral (n - 1)
>>             o = listArray (1,n) (sort xs)
>>
>>     vLength (SCV _ n _ _ _) = n
>>     vMean   (SCV _ _ m _ _) = m
>>     vSd     (SCV _ _ _ s _) = s
>>     vMin    (SCV _ _ _ _ a) = a ! 1
>>     vMax    (SCV _ n _ _ a) = a ! n
>>     vRange   scv            = vMax scv - vMin scv
>>     vMedian (SCV _ n _ _ a)
>>       | odd n               = a ! ((n+1)`div`2)
>>       | even n              = ((a ! l) + (a ! u))/2
>>                               where l = n `div` 2
>>                                     u = n - l
>>     .....
>
> Math.Statistics eats many good names. I would also suggest offering a type class
> interface.  Then you could operate on various containers besides a list:

If it's only about polymorphic list types, a type class for general list 
types may be enough. This works without multi-parameter type class.

http://software.complete.org/listlike/

Maybe it can be generalized to Foldable.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Use_of_language_extensions