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| <span class="firstname">Eric</span> <span class="surname">Niebler</span> |
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| <dt><span class="section"><a href="accumulators/user_s_guide.html#accumulators.user_s_guide.the_accumulators_framework">The |
| Accumulators Framework</a></span></dt> |
| <dt><span class="section"><a href="accumulators/user_s_guide.html#accumulators.user_s_guide.the_statistical_accumulators_library">The |
| Statistical Accumulators Library</a></span></dt> |
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| <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">It is better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.</span>”</span><br> |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>-- Old adage</em></span> |
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| Boost.Accumulators is both a library for incremental statistical computation |
| as well as an extensible framework for incremental calculation in general. |
| The library deals primarily with the concept of an <span class="emphasis"><em>accumulator</em></span>, |
| which is a primitive computational entity that accepts data one sample at a |
| time and maintains some internal state. These accumulators may offload some |
| of their computations on other accumulators, on which they depend. Accumulators |
| are grouped within an <span class="emphasis"><em>accumulator set</em></span>. Boost.Accumulators |
| resolves the inter-dependencies between accumulators in a set and ensures that |
| accumulators are processed in the proper order. |
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