[alexandria-devel] generic mean, variance, median, standard-deviation

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On 12 December 2011 18:06, Tamas Papp <tkpapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to make MEAN, VARIANCE, MEDIAN, and
> STANDARD-DEVIATION generic?  The concepts are meaningful for objects
> other than sequences --- including arrays and random-variables (see
> cl-random), sequences pre-sorted for easy quantile calculation, etc.
> Currently I am shadowing these and redefining them as generic in some
> of my libraries.
>
> I am happy to implement the change and send a patch.

Sounds good to me.

Cheers,

 -- nikodemus