[SPARK-5477] Refactor stat.py in order to expand mllib.stat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: MLlib, PySpark
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Xiangrui Meng
• Reporter: Xiangrui Meng
• Created: 29/Jan/15 08:17
• Updated: 29/Jan/15 18:12
• Resolved: 29/Jan/15 18:12

Description

There is only a single `stat.py` file for the `mllib.stat` package. We recently added `MultivariateGaussian` under `mllib.stat.distribution` in Scala/Java. It would be nice to refactor `stat.py` and make it easy to expand.

Issue Links

• blocks: SPARK-5012 Python API for Gaussian Mixture Model
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4266 (mengxr)