Re: kernel density smoother?

[forkandwait]

Søren Hauberg <soren <at> hauberg.org> writes:

> 
> fre, 12 03 2010 kl. 00:30 -0600, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> > On 11 March 2010 22:02, forkandwait <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  (... wishing there were a benevolent dictator of octave libraries....)
> > 
> > It's unlikely there ever will. I think Søren is the closest we have.

For which I am very grateful.

> That being said, I am curious: what would you like such a "dictator" to
> do?

One of the best things about Python the language is the iron fist / velvet 
glove with which "the standard library" is maintained and standardized. There 
is very little need to go look for routines (like kernel density smoother), 
since by the time a small brain like mine thinks of them, folks probably 
figured out the package and included a standard way of doing it.  Octave forge 
plus File Exchange serves the role of putting everything in one place, but not 
of making it a consistent well documented bundle.  The "PEP" process is how 
these things get figured out together.

I would volunteer, but I am not smart enough, I think, esp if I don't know off 
the top of my head that a kernel density smoother can be knocked together out 
of a convolution.... ;)