* Statistical tests
@ 2002-12-04 11:41 Alberto RIBON
2002-12-09 13:36 ` Brian Gough
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From: Alberto RIBON @ 2002-12-04 11:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gsl-discuss
Hello,
I am not writing for reporting a bug, but for
asking a question: I have looked through the various
GSL functions but I haven't found any function
related to statistical tests, that is to determine
the probability that a distribution (histogram) is
coming from a certain distribution (which could be
an analytical function, or another histogram).
Examples of such tests are:
--- Kolmogorov-Smirnov test;
--- Smirnov-Cramer-von Mises test;
--- Anderson-Darling test.
Am I right, or these functions are already provided
in GSL? If not, as I think, is it planned to have
them in future extensions, and if this is the case
when more or less?
Thanks,
Best regards,
Alberto Ribon.
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* Re: Statistical tests
2002-12-04 11:41 Statistical tests Alberto RIBON
@ 2002-12-09 13:36 ` Brian Gough
2002-12-10 3:10 ` Alberto Ribon
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Brian Gough @ 2002-12-09 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alberto RIBON; +Cc: gsl-discuss
Alberto RIBON writes:
> I am not writing for reporting a bug, but for asking a question:
> I have looked through the various GSL functions but I haven't
> found any function related to statistical tests, that is to
> determine the probability that a distribution (histogram) is
> coming from a certain distribution (which could be an analytical
> function, or another histogram). Examples of such tests are:
> --- Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; --- Smirnov-Cramer-von Mises test;
> --- Anderson-Darling test.
> Am I right, or these functions are already provided in GSL? If
> not, as I think, is it planned to have them in future extensions,
> and if this is the case when more or less?
GSL doesn't have any statistical tests at the moment, since nobody has
volunteered to write them. If you'd like to write some let me know.
Brian
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* Re: Statistical tests
2002-12-09 13:36 ` Brian Gough
@ 2002-12-10 3:10 ` Alberto Ribon
2002-12-10 5:37 ` Addendum to previous email Alberto Ribon
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alberto Ribon @ 2002-12-10 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian Gough
Cc: gsl-discuss, Andreas Pfeiffer, Gabriele Cosmo, Maria Grazia Pia
Hello,
I am involved, with other people (mainly from CERN,
European Organization for Nuclear Research,
and also from INFN, the Italian National Nuclear Physics
institute), in a project to develop a statistical test suite
to automatize the tedious but essential task of checking
a large (thousands) distributions (either from real experimental
data or from simulation), against other "reference" distributions
(which can be theoretical expected distributions, or other
data distributions, or even simulated distributions, obtained
for example in previous versions of the simulated package).
Central in this project is the employment of different
statistical tests, like Chi2, Kolmogorov-Smirnov,
Smirnov-Cramer-von Mises, Anderson-Darling, etc...
This project will be written in * C++ * and will be
* free software *. Furthermore, for the histogram part,
we plan to use another C++ free software package, developed
in the same High Energy Physics community, called AIDA/Anaphe:
http://aida.freehep.org/
http://cern.ch/anaphe/
(another package, still in C++ and free software, which is
currently heavily used by all High-Energy Physics community,
and which provides lots of useful mathematical functions, is
CLHEP:
http://cern.ch/clhep/
this is not directly linked with the statistical tests, but
I think it is worth to bring it to your attention)
We plan to have a first release of it for Spring-Summer 2003.
We are quite interested and pleased to provide this code
to GSL, including the necessary integration effort with
the rest of GSL.
We will contact you as soon as we have a working first version.
Best Regards,
Alberto Ribon
PS- I'd like to thank and acknowledge for the
replies I received previously (see below), from Ramon Diaz
and Jason H. Stover, who pointed me on the GNU R project.
I had a look at it, but we don't think it provides what
we really need.
-------------------------------
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Brian Gough wrote:
->Alberto RIBON writes:
-> > I am not writing for reporting a bug, but for asking a question:
-> > I have looked through the various GSL functions but I haven't
-> > found any function related to statistical tests, that is to
-> > determine the probability that a distribution (histogram) is
-> > coming from a certain distribution (which could be an analytical
-> > function, or another histogram). Examples of such tests are:
-> > --- Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; --- Smirnov-Cramer-von Mises test;
-> > --- Anderson-Darling test.
-> > Am I right, or these functions are already provided in GSL? If
-> > not, as I think, is it planned to have them in future extensions,
-> > and if this is the case when more or less?
->
->GSL doesn't have any statistical tests at the moment, since nobody has
->volunteered to write them. If you'd like to write some let me know.
->
->Brian
->
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* Addendum to previous email
2002-12-10 3:10 ` Alberto Ribon
@ 2002-12-10 5:37 ` Alberto Ribon
2002-12-10 7:09 ` Jason H. Stover
2002-12-11 2:58 ` Brian Gough
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alberto Ribon @ 2002-12-10 5:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian Gough
Cc: gsl-discuss, Andreas Pfeiffer, Gabriele Cosmo, Maria Grazia Pia
Hello,
after talking with my collaborators, we confirm our
interest in providing our contributions to GSL as far as
the statistical tests are concerned, but for the integration
effort we would appreciate the help of experts in GSL and
any commitments from our side would be obviously subject to
an evaluation of the effort needed.
By the way, we would appreciate any information of guidelines
and possible constraints relevant for the integration of code in GSL.
Best Regards,
Alberto
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* Re: Addendum to previous email
2002-12-10 5:37 ` Addendum to previous email Alberto Ribon
@ 2002-12-10 7:09 ` Jason H. Stover
2002-12-11 2:58 ` Brian Gough
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jason H. Stover @ 2002-12-10 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alberto Ribon
Cc: Brian Gough, gsl-discuss, Andreas Pfeiffer, Gabriele Cosmo,
Maria Grazia Pia
I'm willing to help develop and integrate statistical
tests, though right now I'm buried under cumulative
distribution functions.
-Jason
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Alberto Ribon wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> after talking with my collaborators, we confirm our
> interest in providing our contributions to GSL as far as
> the statistical tests are concerned, but for the integration
> effort we would appreciate the help of experts in GSL and
> any commitments from our side would be obviously subject to
> an evaluation of the effort needed.
>
> By the way, we would appreciate any information of guidelines
> and possible constraints relevant for the integration of code in GSL.
>
> Best Regards,
> Alberto
>
>
>
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* Re: Addendum to previous email
2002-12-10 5:37 ` Addendum to previous email Alberto Ribon
2002-12-10 7:09 ` Jason H. Stover
@ 2002-12-11 2:58 ` Brian Gough
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Brian Gough @ 2002-12-11 2:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alberto.Ribon
Cc: gsl-discuss, Andreas Pfeiffer, Gabriele Cosmo, Maria Grazia Pia
Alberto Ribon writes:
> By the way, we would appreciate any information of guidelines
> and possible constraints relevant for the integration of code in GSL.
The 'GSL Design Document', available from http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/
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