Do you have unit tests written for the different components? On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Patrick Meyer <meyer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds good. Separating the general purpose stats from the psychometric > specific stats seems like a natural way to distinguish the two libraries. > I'll send a link to the source code soon. Hopefully, you will see the good > ideas in the code. > > > On 9/3/2011 12:57 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > >> On 9/2/11 7:19 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote: >> >>> Yes, the math code is separate from the GUI and database for the >>> most part. I'd be happy to share the code and documentation, but I >>> need a few days to add it to a repository and get it online. >>> >>> There are parts of my library that can be transferred to math with >>> very few changes but other parts that need more work to make it >>> more object oriented in style and less procedural. In any case, >>> I'll send information about the code once I have it online. >>> >> Don't worry too much about making things beautiful. Bad code + good >> ideas is the combination that works [1]. The thing to think about >> is what portions of your code are really general purpose math. Most >> likely kernel regression, polycor, histograms, etc., maybe not so >> much test scaling for example. Luc may have some good advice >> having done this already with an space dynamics library (or maybe >> Luc is so smart that there was no refactoring necessary :) >> >> What tends to work best is to bring things in incrementally, talking >> about the fit and how to integrate. >> >> Phil >> >> [1] http://s.apache.org/hZ >> >>> Patrick >>> >>> On 9/2/2011 9:26 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. >>>> >>>> I have been developing an pure Java application that does a variety >>>>> of psychometric methods. I use the commons math library as much >>>>> as I >>>>> can but I've also had to develop my own library. I'd like to >>>>> combine >>>>> the two libraries by donating as much of my code to commons math as >>>>> I can. My library includes features for measurement reliability, >>>>> test scaling, test equating, polychoric correlations, histogram >>>>> computations, kernel regression, etc. Most of these feature are >>>>> specialized to psychometrics, but is there any interest in adding >>>>> them to commons math? Are these methods too specialized for commons >>>>> math? >>>>> >>>> Can we have a look at the code and documentation? >>>> >>>> If you're interested in seeing the application in action, you can >>>>> download the full program from www.ItemAnalysis.com. You'll notice >>>>> that it also uses an Apache derby database for data management. >>>>> >>>> Is the math code separate from GUI and data management? >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Gilles >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>>> --------- >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>>> dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> --------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
