On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:50 AM, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Hi guys
is stdev a typical name for standardDeviation?
Because I found it sad to have mean and stdev instead of mean and standardDeviation.
stdev() or std() seems fairly typical. Doesn't mean we can't be different. One thing though is that the typical function is what newcomers would search on, which makes me consider it could be useful in Spotter to have a mapping from functions in other languages to Pharo methods. So a user would type stdev and the top hit would be standardDeviation. MathCAD: stdev() http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~Eyler/phys258/P/stats.pdf Excel: stdev() http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Standard-Deviation-in-Excel Python 3.4: stdev() http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15389768/standard-deviation-of-a-list NumPy: std() http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15389768/standard-deviation-of-a-list Mathworks: std() https://au.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/std.html?s_tid=gn_loc_drop SAS: std() http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2012/03/05/functions-to-know-the-mean-var-a... cheers -ben