[swift-users] Implementing a few statistics functions in Swift

[Harlan Haskins]

Oh yeah, I'd love contributions and feedback! I'm essentially implementing this as I learn things in stats 101 so it's probably woefully inadequate. 😅

-- Harlan

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Michael Ilseman <milseman at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 8, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Georgios Moschovitis via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Hey everyone,
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>> I would like to implement a few statistics functions in Swift (e.g. variance, standardDeviation, etc) that are computed over a collection.
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>> I am aware of this library:
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>> https://github.com/evgenyneu/SigmaSwiftStatistics
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>> My problem is that it only supports Doubles and Arrays. Also the API doesn’t look very ‘swifty' to me.
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> You might find this library to be more Swifty: https://github.com/harlanhaskins/Probably
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> It’s not as generic as possible nor has all the features you might need, but the author is very responsive to feedback.
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>> I am wondering how would someone implement such functionality in a more generic way: to allow usage of multiple collections (even custom, e.g. a RingBuffer) and multiple value types (e.g. Decimal, Double). Extra points for being 'swifty'.
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>> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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>> -g.
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