piecewise uniform distribution?

[tawheeler]

Is there any chance for implementing a piecewise uniform distribution? (univariate or multivariate).
This is what a histogram generates.

Most stats functions on it should be well-defined; just not sure whether a fit function would be.

I can take a stab at it and submit a PR if desired.

[andreasnoack]

Would it make sense for the applications you have in mind to overload the Histogram type in StatsBase and thereby making it a distribution?

[tawheeler]

Do you mean AbstractHistogram{T<:Real,N,E} <: Distribution?
Thanks, I did not know about the Histogram type.

[andreasnoack]

Maybe. I haven't really thought enough about it but it be worth trying out.

[tawheeler]

Worst case you could do encapsulation:

type PiecewiseUniform <: ContinuousUnivariate
   hist::Histogram
end

or similar.

That would let you do something similar for the multivariate case.

[andreasnoack]

Reopening this since it doesn't appear to be resolved

[BenCurran98]

Hi, just wanted to see if this was still being considered? It would be very handy to some work I'm doing :)