matrix_max and matrix_min are ambiguous: are they row-wise, column-wise, or
whole-matrix?
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:25, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 7/1/10, Mario Rodriguez <biomates at telefonica.net> wrote:
>
> > Stavros Macrakis escribi?:
> >> I disagree that lmax should perform column-wise max. I certainly
> >> understand that this is a useful and important operation, but I don't
> >> think it should be the meaning of lmax, especially since Maxima
> >> doesn't allow 'max' on lists (a.k.a. vectors).
> >
> > Then, let's rewrite the functions in descriptive. But I don't like
> > col_min, as you proposed in a previous post, since other functions
> > (mean, std, etc.) also operate in column wise form without prefix col_
> > in their names.
> >
> > I prefere smin and smax for the sample min and max. These names also
> > follow the name convention of lmin and lmax.
>
> I dunno. Maxima has a very large namespace so less frequently
> used names should be spelled out. Also, I don't see that this
> operation is peculiar to observational data. So instead of
> smin, smax I'll recommend matrix_min and matrix_max.
>
> FWIW
>
> Robert Dodier
>