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The prbnmcn-stats statistical library.
Introduction
prbnmcn-stats (stats for short) was designed to construct simple probabilistic models and compute basic statistics over empirical data obtained from various experiments.
The core data type is that of a probability distribution. Distributions come under various guises.
Empirical distributions are the typical outcome of performing a bunch of measurements or experiments, concretely they are nothing more than a collection of data. The empirical mean, empirical variance and quantiles are typical statistics that can be computed on empirical distributions.
Generative distributions a.k.a. samplers are used when constructing probabilistic models, they are typically used to generate synthetic data.
Measures are the mathematical representation of a distribution, associating weights to (sets of) data. This is the form we use to compute statistics such as the mean, the variance, etc of a distribution. Typically, we manipulate only finitely supported measures.
stats provides modules dedicated for each case, and maps between the various forms under which probability distributions appear.