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> Statistics for Programmers Why intriguing? The most general family of distributions can only be expressed with a programming language, so there are certainly
by nextos 10y ago
> Statistics for Programmers
Why intriguing? The most general family of distributions can only be expressed with a programming language, so there are certainly many connections between both fields.
Incidentally, that's one of my major complaints about Lisp these days. Lisp-Stat started dying in the early 2000s and completely faded away long ago. I read PCL when it was published a decade ago and I fondly remember how enthusiastic I became about Lisp.
I have used Clojure extensively, but the ecosystem for doing math and statistics is quite reduced. The same applies to CL and Scheme. I wish I could use one Lisp for most tasks.
- JadeNB 10y ago> > At one point he mentioned writing a book to the effect of Statistics for Programmers, which sounds intriguing to me. > Why intriguing? The most general family of distributions can only be expressed with a programming language, so there are certainly many connections between both fields. That seems to be an argument for why it is intriguing. Were you perhaps arguing that it wasn't surprising?
- disgruntledphd2 10y agoR is about as close as it gets (it is quite lispy underneath all the C-like syntax).
- pjmlp 10y agoJulia and Wolfram as well.