Re: [math] Continuous Distribution

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/28/11 9:31 PM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: > Hi, > The following question might sound stupid, but occured to me while > thinking about MATH-692. So here goes. What was initially meant by > "Continuous Distribution" (as in AbstractContinuousDistribution) ? > My view on this is that the underlying

[math] Continuous Distribution

2011-10-28 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi, The following question might sound stupid, but occured to me while thinking about MATH-692. So here goes. What was initially meant by "Continuous Distribution" (as in AbstractContinuousDistribution) ? My view on this is that the underlying random variable is defined by a *density*, which takes

[continuum] BUILD FAILURE: Apache Commons - Commons Math - Default Maven 2 Build Definition (Java 1.5)

2011-10-28 Thread Continuum@vmbuild
Online report : http://vmbuild.apache.org/continuum/buildResult.action?buildId=13852&projectId=97 Build statistics: State: Failed Previous State: Ok Started at: Sat 29 Oct 2011 00:29:22 + Finished at: Sat 29 Oct 2011 00:31:28 + Total time: 2m 6s Build Trigger: Schedule Build

Re: [Math] Naming confusion

2011-10-28 Thread Ted Dunning
Shouldn't Vectorial be Vector? On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Gilles Sadowski < gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > Hello. > > I think that something is not quite right in those class names: > UnivariateMatrixFunction > UnivariateRealFunction > UnivariateVectorialFunction > > To be consis

[RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache Commons-Digester 3.1 based on RC2

2011-10-28 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi all guys, Since 72 hours passed I'm declaring this vote as closed and passed with 3 positive votes from PMCs: * Simone Tripodi * Luc Maisonobe * Oliver Heger no other votes were cast. I'll move the proposed release to dist/ and give 24 hours for mirrors to sync before making ANN and site u

[Math] Naming confusion

2011-10-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. I think that something is not quite right in those class names: UnivariateMatrixFunction UnivariateRealFunction UnivariateVectorialFunction To be consistent, we should either 1. indicate the "grouping" and "number" type everywhere: UnivariateRealMatrixFunction Univaria

Re: [SANDBOX] Problem with mvn deploy

2011-10-28 Thread sebb
On 27 October 2011 13:02, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > I usually carefully follow the steps in > https://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus Some of which is not appropriate for Sandbox components, as they do not have releases. > Gary > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Adrian Crum < > a

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:20:34AM -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: > [...] > BoundedPoint. As I said, this is what I tend to do at the moment, but > I have mixed feelings about this solution vs. passing 3 double[]. Any > thoughts about this side question? > >>> On the principle, you

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/28/11 12:14 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Le 28/10/2011 08:27, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : > > Hi Sébastien, > >> 2011/10/27 Gilles Sadowski : >> The BOBYQA optimizer takes simple bound contraints into account: >> lowerBound(i) <= p(i) <= upperBound(i)0 <= i < n >> where "n" is

Re: [VOTE] Release Compress 1.3 based on RC2

2011-10-28 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
+1 Le 28/10/2011 07:14, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : Hi all, compared to RC1 Michael Kuss' name has been fixed and he's been added as contributor. A bunch of additional tests increased coverage (still some areas are not covered but coverage is better than it has been for any prior release). A few

[GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-proxy-test (in module apache-commons) failed

2011-10-28 Thread Gump
To whom it may engage... This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more information please visit http://gump.apache.org/nagged.html, and/or contact the folk at gene...@gump.apache.org. Project commons-proxy-test has an issue affecting its community integration. This

Re: [compress] Contributors

2011-10-28 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hello Michael, On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Michael Kuß wrote: > It is ok for me if it is fixed some time in the future. > Yes, that was this Markus Kuss. Although I requested it to be > changed to Christian Grobmeier. > Just do not go into too much trouble. for some reason I don't remember

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi Gilles, > >> > but this could be handled by >> > returning eg a negative value. > > That's not very object-oriented. ;-) > Touché ! Best regards, Sébastien - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For addi

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hi Luc, 2011/10/28 Luc Maisonobe : > Le 28/10/2011 08:27, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : > > Hi Sébastien, > >> 2011/10/27 Gilles Sadowski : >> The BOBYQA optimizer takes simple bound contraints into account: >>   lowerBound(i) <= p(i) <= upperBound(i)    0 <= i < n >> where "n" is the pr

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > >>> [...] > >>> In order to avoid this, what I tend to do at the moment is to define a > >>> new class --say, BoundedPoint-- which would hold three double:s an > >>> initial value, a lower bound and an upper bound. Then I would just > >>> provide the method with the corresponding array of

Re: [Math] Optimizers: API for simple bound constraints

2011-10-28 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 28/10/2011 08:27, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : Hi Sébastien, > 2011/10/27 Gilles Sadowski : > The BOBYQA optimizer takes simple bound contraints into account: > lowerBound(i) <= p(i) <= upperBound(i)0 <= i < n > where "n" is the problem dimension. > > The parent class