Subject: Statistics::Descriptive v2.0
From: [email-masked] (Colin Kuskie)
Date: 3 Sep 1997 21:14:05 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

I have uploaded version 2.0 of Statistics::Descriptive to CPAN (with
much help from Herr Koenig :)  Here are the details from the README 
file:

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This is a complete rewrite of the OO interface to
Statistics::Descriptive.  A full description of the new interface can
be found in the POD documentation inside the module, here are the
highlights:

*  None of the underlying methods of calculation have been changed.

*  There are two separate, distinct classes in the module, Sparse and
   Full.  Full inherits from Sparse and extends it with storage of the
   data and additional methods that depend on analyzing the data based
   on user input (in general).  It should be easy to inherit from
   either of the classes.

*  Minimum and maximum methods are now calculated as part of the
   Sparse class, resulting in a faster access to that data.

*  The indices to the maxima and minima are also available.

*  Methods were added to manually sort the data and prevent
   subsequent sorting of the data, sort_data and presorted,
   respectively.  This should speed up some of the analysis by not
   repeatedly sorting the data.

Please send any bugs, comments, complaints or suggestions to me, 
[email-masked]

Enjoy!