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No, I have written very few tests. Until I recently discovered jUnit, I 
was using a very crude way of testing my code. I plan to add more tests 
over the coming year.

If you are registered with java.net, you can view the source code at 
http://java.net/projects/psychometrics. I have requested that the 
project be made public but I don't know how long that will take.

There is one dependency in the polychoric correlation package 
(com.itemanalysis.polycor) that could be problematic. The maximum 
likelihood estimator requires a multivariate normal (or at least 
bivariate normal) CDF. I use the one from 
http://vadim.kutsyy.com/java/javadoc/com/kutsyy/util/package-summary.html Are 
there plans to add a multivaraite normal CDF function to commons math?

Patrick


On 9/3/2011 12:36 PM, Greg Sterijevski wrote:
> Do you have unit tests written for the different components?
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Patrick Meyer<meyerjp3@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Sounds good. Separating the general purpose stats from the psychometric
>> specific stats seems like a natural way to distinguish the two libraries.
>> I'll send a link to the source code soon. Hopefully, you will see the good
>> ideas in the code.
>>
>>
>> On 9/3/2011 12:57 AM, Phil Steitz wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/2/11 7:19 AM, Patrick Meyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, the math code is separate from the GUI and database for the
>>>> most part. I'd be happy to share the code and documentation, but I
>>>> need a few days to add it to a repository and get it online.
>>>>
>>>> There are parts of my library that can be transferred to math with
>>>> very few changes but other parts that need more work to make it
>>>> more object oriented in style and less procedural. In any case,
>>>> I'll send information about the code once I have it online.
>>>>
>>> Don't worry too much about making things beautiful.  Bad code + good
>>> ideas is the combination that works [1].  The thing to think about
>>> is what portions of your code are really general purpose math.  Most
>>> likely kernel regression, polycor, histograms, etc., maybe not so
>>> much test scaling for example.   Luc may have some good advice
>>> having done this already with an space dynamics library (or maybe
>>> Luc is so smart that there was no refactoring necessary :)
>>>
>>> What tends to work best is to bring things in incrementally, talking
>>> about the fit and how to integrate.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> [1] http://s.apache.org/hZ
>>>
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>> On 9/2/2011 9:26 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>>   I have been developing an pure Java application that does a variety
>>>>>> of psychometric methods. I use the commons math library as much
>>>>>> as I
>>>>>> can but I've also had to develop my own library. I'd like to
>>>>>> combine
>>>>>> the two libraries by donating as much of my code to commons math as
>>>>>> I can. My library includes features for measurement reliability,
>>>>>> test scaling, test equating, polychoric correlations, histogram
>>>>>> computations, kernel regression, etc. Most of these feature are
>>>>>> specialized to psychometrics, but is there any interest in adding
>>>>>> them to commons math? Are these methods too specialized for commons
>>>>>> math?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Can we have a look at the code and documentation?
>>>>>
>>>>>   If you're interested in seeing the application in action, you can
>>>>>> download the full program from www.ItemAnalysis.com. You'll notice
>>>>>> that it also uses an Apache derby database for data management.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is the math code separate from GUI and data management?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Gilles
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