RE: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters

2013-07-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
>From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 2:21 PM >To: Commons Developers List >Subject: Re: [Math] Cleaning up the curve fitters. . >The discussion about how to get something into commons when it is (a) well >documented and (b) demonstrated better on at least

RE: [math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gilles, Yes, I was. Thanks for the directions. Thanks, Jared -Original Message- From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:16 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [math] CurveFitter Classes. . On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:49 -0500, Becksfort

[math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am wondering if something will replace the deprecated CurveFitter classes? I looked around on the mailing list and Jira but did not see anything. I am looking to fit a curve to 3d points. Is there a better option in Commons Math? I have not settled on a fit/cost function and haven'

RE: [math] Checkstyle

2013-03-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
013 20:49, Thomas Neidhart a écrit : >> On 03/19/2013 08:43 PM, Thomas Neidhart wrote: >>> On 03/19/2013 08:18 PM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >>>> Hi Jared, >>>> >>>> Le 19/03/2013 17:14, Becksfort, Jared a écrit : >>>>> Hello, >>>&

[math] Checkstyle

2013-03-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am using the Apache Common XML file to format my code submissions in Eclipse. Gilles says my last submission has some CheckStyle warnings, so I installed the CheckStyle plugin. It gives tons of warnings, including some that go against the posted style guidelines, such as "All public

[math] Expectation Maximization Code Location

2013-03-19 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I recently submitted some code for the fitting of multivariate normal mixture model distributions to data using the Expectation Maximization algorithm. I placed the code in the o.a.c.m.optimization.fitting package. Gilles wonders if it would make more sense to have it in the o.a.c.m.di

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-15 Thread Becksfort, Jared
> Patches just applied. Many thanks. One small thing that will make it easier > in the future is to create patches from the top-level /trunk directory. > Thanks! >Phil OK, will do. Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/consultationdisclai

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-15 Thread Becksfort, Jared
-Original Message- From: Becksfort, Jared Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:28 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [math] Scaling arrays. . On 3/11/13 8:21 AM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: > Hi Phil, > >> What exactly *is* it and what are the use cases? > Just a method t

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
On 3/11/13 8:21 AM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: > Hi Phil, > >> What exactly *is* it and what are the use cases? > Just a method to multiply each element in an array by a number and return > either a copy of the array or do it in place. Maybe there can be one method > for e

RE: [math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
figured it would be broadly applicable enough to just be put in the MathArrays class. Jared -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 2:19 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [math] Scaling arrays. . On 3/8/13 12:14 PM, Beck

[math] Scaling arrays

2013-03-08 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I may be missing it somewhere, but I am surprised there is no function for scaling arrays in MathArrays.java or somewhere else. - Am I stupidly missing it? - Is there a reason it is not in there? - Shall I add it? Thanks, Jared __

RE: [math] Question regarding use of CM - who is using it?. .

2013-01-31 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I have used CM in statistics and medical image processing. - For image processing, I have used the threed geometry package to help me determine planes of maximum symmetry in 3D human MRI and CT scans. - For statistics, I am using code that I contributed (after feedback from Gilles) in the

RE: [math] Math-817 and .equals questions. .

2012-11-09 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Any thoughts on the below email? If not, I will submit one patch, probably today or tomorrow. --- Hello, I am about to submit some code for issue Math-817 involving fitting multivariate normal mixture models using the EM algorithm. In order to simplify the unit t

[math] Math-817 and .equals questions

2012-11-07 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am about to submit some code for issue Math-817 involving fitting multivariate normal mixture models using the EM algorithm. In order to simplify the unit test, I added overrode equals and hashCode. This in turn required me to make a few changes to code in the previously resolved iss

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution)=?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =

2012-10-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
gICAu? = On 10/18/12 8:55 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:59:22AM -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: >> On 10/18/12 1:41 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:26:55PM -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: >>>> On 10/17/12 8:36 PM, Becksfo

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution) =?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =. .

2012-10-17 Thread Becksfort, Jared
at 7:31 PM, Becksfort, Jared < jared.becksf...@stjude.org> wrote: > Ted, > > I am not sure I understand the problem with the fixed number of > components. My understanding is that CM prefers immutable objects. Adding > a component to an object would require reweighting in

RE: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model distribution)=?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? =

2012-10-17 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Ted, I am not sure I understand the problem with the fixed number of components. My understanding is that CM prefers immutable objects. Adding a component to an object would require reweighting in addition to modifying the component list. A new mixture model could be instantiated using the ge

RE: [math] Formatting

2012-08-23 Thread Becksfort, Jared
> > [...] >> >> Think about it from the standpoint of a new contributor. How long >> does it take to prepare and get a patch committed for a) the new >> contributor and b) the committer who ends up applying the patch. >> More rules means more time. It is that simple. Either the new >> contributo

RE: My vote for release

2012-08-01 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gary, I have wondered about the public scoping of arrays myself for that same reason. I also write image processing code, and the arrays can be quite large, especially if the processing is in three dimensions. Jared -Original Message- From: Gary Lucas [mailto:gwlu...@sonalysts.com] Se

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-27 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gilles, I think it will be difficult (for me, at least) to provide a general method for testing sampling across all multivariate distributions. I imagine it can be done, but I would prefer for now just to make it an abstract method and expect the writers of future multivariate distribution cl

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-27 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Original Message- From: Gilles Sadowski [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:18 AM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:00:44AM -0500, Becksfort, Jared wrote: > I have

RE: [math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-25 Thread Becksfort, Jared
" but mentioned covariance matrix in the comments. Do the developers here have a preference between getSigma and getCovarianceMatrix? I can change the parameters accordingly. Jared -Original Message----- From: Becksfort, Jared Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:29 PM To: Commons Devel

[math] Unit Tests for Multivariate Distribution Sampling

2012-07-24 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am working on submitting code for multivariate normal distributions, including sampling and unit tests (issue Math-815). It is my first submission, and it has had some issues with style and other guidelines. Gilles has given me some useful feedback about several pieces, but I thought

RE: [Math] Random tests sometimes fail (r1363105)

2012-07-22 Thread Becksfort, Jared
That is a good idea. I will add that to the multivariate normal distribution unit tests that I recently sent. From: Gilles Sadowski [gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:44 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: [Math] Random tests s

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Phil, Will do. Thanks for clarifying. Jared From: Phil Steitz [phil.ste...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:48 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [Math] NOTICE file On 7/18/12 9:35 PM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: > My employer requi

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:11 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [Math] NOTICE file On 7/18/12 9:02 PM, Becksfort, Jared wrote: > That may have been a dumb question. I was thinking there were multiple > NOTICE files, but apparently there is only one. I guess it can be part of

RE: [Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
That may have been a dumb question. I was thinking there were multiple NOTICE files, but apparently there is only one. I guess it can be part of the patch unless I hear otherwise from someone on the list. Jared From: Becksfort, Jared [jared.becksf

[Math] NOTICE file

2012-07-18 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am ready to submit code patches for a few tickets. I will email the patches to JIRA. They include unit tests. Do I just email the NOTICE file also, or do I have to include it in the patch file somehow? Thanks, Jared Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation Dis

RE: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model

2012-07-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
ll be where I plan to submit it anyway. Thanks, Jared From: Luc Maisonobe [luc.maison...@free.fr] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:11 PM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model On 11/07/2012 18:34, Becksfort,

RE: [math] Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model

2012-07-11 Thread Becksfort, Jared
retain copyright, and we give the ASF non-exclusive copyright as well. Is this correct? My company is also generally requires that I place our name somewhere near the top of the comments. Does this work for you? Thanks, Jared -Original Message- From: Becksfort, Jared [mailto:jared.becksf

RE: [math]

2012-07-10 Thread Becksfort, Jared
. multivariate Normal distribution in one submission), and create an issue as described at http://commons.apache.org/math/issue-tracking.html . If you run into any problems, please do not hesitate to ask on this mailing list. Cheers, Mikkel. 2012/7/9 Becksfort, Jared : > Hello, > > I have im

[math]

2012-07-09 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I have implemented some classes for multivariate Normal distributions, multivariate normal mixture models, and an expectation maximization fitting class for the mixture model. I would like to submit it to Apache Commons Math. I still have some touching up to do so that they fit the sty