Statistics/Descriptive/Discrete version 0.01 ============================================ Calculates descriptive statistics for discrete data sets (e.g. data sets with a known, discrete number of values or levels in the data, such as the output of an analog-to-digital conversion). The interface is very similar (almost identical) to Statistics::Descriptive but the performance is an order of magnitude better when the data set is very large relative to the number of discrete values in the data set. For example, a data set with 2.6 million numbers but only 256 discrete values took 561 seconds to process with Statistics::Descriptive but on 40 seconds to process with Statistics::Descriptive::Discrete. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES None COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (c) 2002 Rhet Turnbull. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Portions of this code is from Statistics::Descriptive which is under the following copyrights: Copyright (c) 1997,1998 Colin Kuskie. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (c) 1998 Andrea Spinelli. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (c) 1994,1995 Jason Kastner. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.