in reply to Faster Statistics for Discrete Data

My Perl skills are too rusty to comment on the code, but the proper word for 'discretized' is quantized.

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Re: Re: Faster Statistics for Discrete Data
by astaines (Curate) on Feb 23, 2002 at 18:47 UTC

    Nope, discretized is the usual statistics terminology. Quantized has additional meanings which are not universally appropriate,

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      Really? Never heard of discretized before. Learn something every day I guess. Which additional meanings of quantized aren't appropriate here?

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