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Streaming Expressions statistical functions library

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 8.1, 9.0
    • streaming expressions
    • None

    Description

      This is a ticket for organizing the new statistical programming features of Streaming Expressions. It's also a place for the community to discuss what functions are needed to support statistical programming.

      Basic Syntax:

      let(a = timeseries(...),
          b = timeseries(...),
          c = col(a, count(*)),
          d = col(b, count(*)),
          r = regress(c, d),
          tuple(p = predict(r, 50)))
      

      The expression above is doing the following:

      1) The let expression is setting variables (a, b, c, d, r).

      2) Variables a and b are the output of timeseries() Streaming Expressions. These will be stored in memory as lists of Tuples containing the time series results.

      3) Variables c and d are set using the col evaluator. The col evaluator extracts a column of numbers from a list of tuples. In the example col is extracting the count(*) field from the two time series result sets.

      4) Variable r is the output from the regress evaluator. The regress evaluator performs a simple regression analysis on two columns of numbers.

      5) Once the variables are set, a single Streaming Expression is run by the let expression. In the example the tuple expression is run. The tuple expression outputs a single Tuple with name/value pairs. Any Streaming Expression can be run by the let expression so this can be a complex program. The streaming expression run by let has access to all the variables defined earlier.

      6) The tuple expression in the example has one name / value pair. The name p is set to the output of the predict evaluator. The predict evaluator is predicting the value of a dependent variable based on the independent variable 50. The regression result stored in variable r is used to make the prediction.

      7) The output of this expression will be a single tuple with the value of the predict function in the p field.

      The growing list of issues linked to this ticket are the array manipulation and statistical functions that will form the basis of the stats library. The vast majority of these functions are backed by algorithms in Apache Commons Math. Other machine learning and math libraries will follow.

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        1. SOLR_7_1_DOCS.patch
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          Joel Bernstein

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