Re: status update

[Jason Stover]

Here's my status:

I've been working on fitting routines for ARMA processes to put in
src/math/ts/. It turned into more work than the straightforward
optimization problem I thought it would be, so I've been working on
the details with pen and paper for a few weeks. I should start coding
it in a week or so.

-Jason

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:02:06PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I'm quite busy at the moment working on a paper for NSDI 07,
> which is going to be the second half of my PhD thesis, so it is
> unlikely that I will get much PSPP work done between now and the
> Oct. 9 deadline.
> 
> I've accomplished some PSPP work in the past few weeks, but it is
> not yet ready for review.  I am essentially finished with
> revamping the input and output formatting code, as well as
> rewriting the documentation.  I am now working on adding strict
> tests of functionality and comparing PSPP's input and output
> against SPSS's.
> 
> I also went off on a significant tangent in which I wrote a bunch
> of code for converting among integer and floating-point formats.
> This will allow PSPP to read and write little-endian, big-endian,
> and VAX-endian integer data, as well as IEEE 754, VAX, and IBM
> mainframe hexadecimal floating-point formats, regardless of the
> architecture that PSPP actually runs on.  I tried to acquire some
> system files for testing the VAX and IBM support by posting on
> the SPSS newsgroup, but no one replied, so I will probably not
> be able to test this support for system files, only for plain
> data files.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Pfaff 
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> web: http://benpfaff.org
> 
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