Convince me to use Julia

[jonathanBieler]

I you like R and statistics, I have some examples where Julia is better (in my opinion) here :

Designated Target Audience of Julia 1.0?

I’m not very well-versed in R but I find it quite horrible for statistics, for example in Julia if you want to compute the pdf of a Normal distribution with parameters (μ,σ) at value x you do : pdf(Normal(μ,σ),x) In R you do: dnorm(x,μ,σ) If you want to truncated Normal between zero and one you do: pdf(Truncated(Normal(μ,σ),0,1),x) In R you do: google for a package ... dtrunc(x, spec="norm", a=0, b=1, mean=μ, sd=σ) If you want a mixture of two Gaussians: MixtureModel([Normal(μ1,σ1), Nor…