Re: regression lib

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> I started writing some backend regression routines, with the intent of
> creating a regression procedure. Since least-squares fitting is a
> cliche in statistics, these routines should be as general-purpose as
> possible, so I created a library in lib/regression.  I haven't gotten
> far yet: just sweep.c, regression.h and Makefile.am, but
> it does compile to libregression.a.
>
> Before I go any farther, is this an acceptable approach?
> libregression.a will know almost nothing about PSPP, but different
> PSPP procedures will be able to call its functions 'easily'.  There
> are a lot of computational routines for linear models.  If possible,
> such routines should be separated from the particularities of the many
> PSPP procedures that eventually will need those computations. (A
> semi-independent regression library might be useful in other
> programs.)

I think that a library designed to be easily used by PSPP, but
separable from it, is a reasonable candidate for lib/.  Your
approach sounds good to me.
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Ben Pfaff 
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