statistics packages for Common Lisp

Question

I have been looking for some good statistics package for Common Lisp, that should be both stable and efficient. There is lhstats, but it doesn't have much documentation and it's not currently maintained. So what is the preferred way for statistics programming in Common Lisp (I'm using SBCL)? I'm looking for a package with advanced statistical functions, such as SEM (structural equation modeling), canonical correlations, GLM (general linear model) etc., but also even very basic but stable and well-documented statistical packages would be useful. Calling R statistical functions from Common Lisp would also be one option. What do you recommend?

Answer 1

I think I would go with lhstat, it may not be maintained anymore, but the same thing seems true for common-lisp-stat (last commit is 1 year old), and at least it is available through Quicklisp. Moreover, maybe those packages aren't maintained because they're good enough.

You can also try RCL a FFI binding of R which is also quickloadable.

Answer 2

The GNU Scientific Library has statistics functions and is accessible from GNU Scientific Library for Lisp.

Answer 3

I only know of it by name, but look here http://incanter.org/

It calls itself "a Clojure-based, R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics." Where clojure is a variant of common lisp.

Answer 4

Probably, you should look at common-lisp-stat