Re: hi, newbie coming

[Laurent Valdes]

Hi Ben,

I do some statistics, but I have a bachelor in CS, I can also write good C code.
I think I will focus on database integration, and on improving
statistical tests, for such things as regressions. In a second part, I
will write code for integration with PSPP and the graphical thing.

First of all, I will compile and run the whole thing from CVS.

Regards,
Laurent

PS: any MSN account or else ?

2007/10/15, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:
> "Laurent Valdes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi, I'm a statistician,
> > and I'm interested with implementing algorithms from SPSS.
> > I know GUI things too, but my main skill is statistics.
>
> One of the troubles we've had with adding statisticians to the
> project is that most of the work in adding a new statistical
> procedure to PSPP is not actually the work of writing statistical
> code.  In fact, a lot of it is fairly mindless programming tasks
> either for parsing user input or formatting user output.  We are
> working to reduce these burdens in the long term, but they are
> still something of a problem for many people.  We are willing to
> help to some extent, of course.
>
> Usually, I suggest that people who want to contribute to PSPP
> pick a statistical procedure that they would like to see
> implemented.  Is there one that you would like to work on?
>
> We have a few guidelines for contributors posted at:
>         http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/contributing.html
>
> > Which is the GUI API for PSPP ?
>
> We are using Gtk.  One task that you could start work on
> immediately, if you are interested in it, is to create a dialog
> box for each of the transformations and statistical procedures
> that PSPP has implemented, using the Glade interface designer.
> We have made a start at this, but we are hoping to complete some
> more of them before making the first official release of PSPP
> with a dialog box.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>


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