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A centralized location for planning the direction of JuliaStats
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Unique interface for statistical models for Distributions, GLM, MCMC and DataSeries #8

Closed papamarkou closed 10 years ago

papamarkou commented 10 years ago

This follows from JuliaStats/Distributions.jl#162, where John has argued in favor of a larger hierarchy of types. MCMC involves statistical modeling and I thought rather than maintaining and further developing the separate model hierarchy in MCMC, it would be better to query the possibility of thinking further about a standard interface across the JuliaStats packages. For example, it is not really handy to simply pass a distribution at the moment to the MCMC package as a model, simply because of the lack of a uniform model interface. I can circumvent this difficulty, but in an ugly non-Julian state of mind, which normally dictates working, coding and developing universally in a unified way :)

papamarkou commented 10 years ago

Sorry for the noise guys, I went through the previous issues and I noticed @johnmyleswhite that you have already opened issue #4 for this topic. I will close this one and will comment there. Sorry for not having seen this earlier :)