Automating the Partition of Indexes
James E. Stafford · Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics · 1994
In this article we show how attention to the structure of a particular algebraic calculation can lead to the simple implementation of powerful computer algebra tools. The creation of partitions for a set of indexes is required for the implementation of many theoretical structures. This may be difficult to do by hand even when the number of indexes is only moderately large. These partitions arise through the action of differentiation and so we mimic differentiation in a computer algebra package to create partitions of indexes. The strategies employed are extended to the creation of complementary set partitions, their reduction to equivalence classes, and the implementation of Edgeworth expansions and the exlog relations.