Hello!
I’ve recently started university placement working on fortran-lang, specifically stuff surrounding stdlib and fpm, under supervision of @fxm, @hkvzjal and @FedericoPerini.
I’ll update any PR’s or discussion points in this thread, hopefully often.
I plan to start looking into the statistical functions of stdlib, specifically expanding upon the existing distribution functions. Whilst fairly new to fortran I look forward to getting to know the codebase and developing!
Despite a fairly busy week academically I managed to work on my first PR to stdlib and begin work locally on what will be my second, including reading up a bit more on more specificities of beta distribution for such. I’ve gotten to know the stats area of the codebase quite well and I’m getting to terms with the different standards of the library.
Hopefully I’ll be able to continue to work on beta distribution this coming week whilst finishing off gamma distribution which seems in a good spot as is, just needs some slight adjustments probably.
(and a bit)
Last week I largely continued to iterate the gamma PR specifically commits on docs, I’ve been able to progress my beta distribution using the feedback for the gamma PR. Given the documentation and structures will be the main differing point between the two it’s quite easy to work locally and have a beta PR ready once my gamma PR is finished!
I also did a fair bit of reading into Student’s T and F distributions numerical stability and the best way to go abouts mathematically approaching them. Their foundations are laid out so I’m able to work on them when I’m not working on gamma and beta.
This week I hope to continue iterating gamma.
