Is there any current review of statistical modules for Perl?

Question

I would like to know which is the current status of the statistical modules in CPAN, does any one know any recent review or could comment about its likes/dislikes with those modules?

I have used the clasical: Statistics::Descriptive, Statistics::Distributions, and some others contained in Bundle::Math::Statistics

Some of the modules has not been updated for long time. I don't know if this is because they are rock solid or has been overtaken by better modules.

Does someone know any current review similar to this old one:

Using Perl for Statistics: Data Processing and Statistical Computing

NB (for the people that will suggest to use R ;-)): All my code is mainly in perl, but I use R a lot for statistics and plotting. I usually prepare the dataframes with perl and write the R script in the perl modules as templates and save to a file and execute them from perl. But sometimes you have small data sets where efficiency is not an issue (well I am using perl insn't it ;-)) and you want to add some statistics and histograms to your report produced with perl.

Answer 1

PDL, the Perl Data Language is alive and thriving so its worth taking a look at that.

And I think the other stats modules you mention are OK. For eg. Statistics::Descriptive is up-to-date and has been used in answers to a few questions here on Stackoverflow.

NB. There is also a Perl to R bridge called Statistics::R which looks interesting.

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