Robust statistics and optimmization from Python

[beliavsky at aol.com]

Robert Kern wrote:

<snip>

> If you find suitable
> FORTRAN or C code that implements a particular "robust" algorithm, it
> can probably wrapped for scipy relatively easily.

An alternative would be to call R (a free statistical package) from
Python, using something like the R/SPlus - Python Interface at
http://www.omegahat.org/RSPython/ . Many statistical algorithms,
including those for robust statistics, have been implemented in R,
usually by wrapping C or Fortran 77 code.