NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

Tim Gales wrote:

> Mitch,
> 
> Didn't you say you couldn't find a 
> statistical extension for PHP?
> 
> Anyway, if someone needs one I found 
> something at http://ftp.stat.ucla.edu/Software/5/
> 
> If anyone wants to use something like this, you 
> should test it ( I would like to know how the 
> tests go, as I am mildly interested in this).

Wow Tim, thanks for the pointer.  I will be taking a close look at this, 
as I was about to head down the same path...  And I will have some great 
performance metrics as I am also writing an automated job that will use 
SD on about 4,500 items - this should be a good test case.

And to hazard a guess to an earlier question ("Why isn't there a PEAR 
module for statistical functions?"), perhaps an extension written in c 
is just a tad faster? ;)

Again thanks for finding this for me.  To quote the Monty Python-esque 
paper research character in the Guinness adds, "Excellent!"

-- Mitch