From: Patrick Alken <patrick.alken@colorado.edu>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: correlation coefficient
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316163626.GA8047@hippogriff.physics.drexel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0703161001360.14340-100000@yks.lanl.gov>
> be sure to include Pearson in the name of the function, since there
> are also Spearman's and Kendall's correlation statistics. (on second
> thought, contradicting myself, those two are specialized nonparametric
> measures, and so maybe it's reasonable to have Pearson's be the
> default.)
matlab and octave both use the name "corrcoef". I don't know about
matlab, but octave has separate functions "spearman" and "kendall"
for the other statistics, so I was thinking that
gsl_stats_correlation would be ok, and later if people want the
other functions they can name them gsl_stats_spearman etc. I'll
make sure the docs clearly state its the Pearson coefficient
for the function.
Patrick Alken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-15 23:06 Patrick Alken
2007-03-15 23:18 ` Ben Klemens
2007-03-16 15:51 ` Brian Gough
2007-03-16 16:01 ` keith.briggs
2007-03-16 16:05 ` James Theiler
2007-03-16 16:36 ` Patrick Alken [this message]
2007-03-16 22:15 ` Patrick Alken
2007-03-20 14:11 ` Brian Gough
2007-03-20 15:41 ` Patrick Alken
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