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@AshrafIbrahim03 AshrafIbrahim03 commented Jul 22, 2026

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Through some discussion in #405 , it seemed like refactoring ks_twosample was needed. Basically just changed the function signature from:

pub fn ks_twosample(
    mut data1: Vec<f64>,
    mut data2: Vec<f64>,
    method: KSTwoSampleAlternativeMethod,
    nan_policy: NaNPolicy,
) -> Result<(f64, f64), KSTestError>

to

pub fn ks_twosample(
    data1: &[f64],
    data2: &[f64],
    method: KSTwoSampleAlternativeMethod,
    nan_policy: NaNPolicy,
) -> Result<(f64, f64), KSTestError>

This is more in line with what's in other files in the same folder.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for iterating through floating-point data in numerical order.
    • Statistical tests can now accept sortable data through a general iterator interface.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of NaN values:
      • Propagation returns NaN results.
      • Error handling reports samples containing NaN values.
      • Emission filters NaN values from calculations.
    • Improved exact-method handling for repeated values and ties.

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@AshrafIbrahim03 did you verify tests with all targets n features?

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I did not. I just reread through the contributing section of the README to see if it details how to run those, but I don't see it. How can I do that?

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probably you find out:
cargo test

Thanks, the call sites compile now. I checked the latest commit but three KS tests still fail. currently order is wrong. are you sure it should be like that? may you add some context to Pr ?

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Yes, just saw the last three tests fail, pushing a fix for it now!

Some more context: basically we were talking about a contribution I could make in #405 , and it seemed like changing the ks sampling function to take a &[f64] instead of a mut Vec<f64> would be more in line with the other files, anderson_darling and chi_square.

I also noticed the ks one sample function that I should probably bundle in this PR too!

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I realize I steered you astray. I think it's better to let the caller opt into copying data. Ideally, we could obtain an iterator over the "sorted" data borrowing, but I don't know if that's easy to express, or we just verify order along with nan policy with an iterator argument.

Thoughts as a user?

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If I need to retain the input data, I can clone it explicitly, otherwise the function can consume and sort it without hidden copies

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@AshrafIbrahim03 that means we should go the other way, convert those that accept slices to instead own as Vec for data we sort in place.

It would be great if there were a way to get an iterator that's element-wise sorted, because then the API expresses we need each value in order. It's incidental that we happen to sort the data ourselves to access that ordering of the values efficiently. Maybe we'll defer that for larger datasets that need to be streamed.

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@AshrafIbrahim03 need any help here?

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@AshrafIbrahim03 need any help here?

Just coming back to this now.

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It would be great if there were a way to get an iterator that's element-wise sorted, because then the API expresses we need each value in order.

This sounds like it could be a new interface that implements Iterator, but calling next just returns the sorted elements, no?

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Accidentally overwrote my prior commits, but it didn't seem like those were needed. I pushed a commit that has some code with a basic sorted iterator. The implementation is not efficient, but is that the type of input you're looking for in the ks_test functions?

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i dont think so, it still will be clone.

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The implementation is not efficient, but is that the type of input you're looking for in the ks_test functions?

Think I'd need to see the API for the ks_*sample functions to be certain, but I do agree with @day01 that if you wanted to provide the Sorted as is, it would require a clone since it's a data structure type (owns structure and values) since there's not a Rust standard notion of sorted iterator, it also might require a constructor that doesn't sort in case I don't want my data explicitly sorted again (perhaps it was sorted on write to disk, and read protocol will read sorted) and we just validate order on the fly.

But we have some good constraints, we need to be able to have a pull-iterator in a sorted order (the for loop in the algorithm) and we want to avoid a clone of the data in the source structure.

Let me know if you're okay with hints/want something clearer/have argument we're missing for your approach. If you write out a usage example that exhibits both of these:

  • calls the ks_*sample function that has API expressing, "I have provided an iterator that I assert is sorted"
  • while avoiding a struct/type that the user has to handle explicitly (sim to most structs in core::iter like Chain, Cloned, we don't have to think about them)

It could also be a good simplifying point to assume that you start with a Vec<T: Ord> and then generalize from there asking "what would I need to provide to express a similar constraint?"

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I think you're right that taking in a new data structure, like Sorted shouldn't be the move. I'm wondering if taking in an impl IntoSortedIterator would be a better way to go about this, then implementing that type for different types of collections would allow a caller more flexibility with the passed argument. I'm thinking the interface of interacting with sorted data could be similar to parallelizing using rayon's parallelized iterator? Simply calling IntoSortedIterator::into_sorted_iterator on an Iterator<Item=T:Ord> would return a SortedIterator, allowing the ks_*sample to interact with these collections without mutating the vector itself.

I think an Iterator implementation would be the best approach, because only reason for mutability in the functions is for sorting, even calculating the test statistics takes iterators

There's one problem with this approach that I've been looking into during my spare time, that being how to iterate through a collection in a sorted order without mutating the underlying data structure or making the iterator itself expensive. I've been doing some research trying to figure this out with just Vec<f64> before generalizing, but if you have any guidance here that would be great!

I'm working on a minimum viable rewrite of the ks_*sample functions using data: impl IntoSortedIterator just to see if this change would be feasible in the sampling methods, but after evaluating feasibility there I would figure out how to optimize the Sorted to not just clone and sort the input Vector.

Let me know if this is a good approach or not. If this isn't I would like some more guidance on how to approach this problem!

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The crate adds a public sorted iterator for f64 vectors. The one-sample KS test accepts this abstraction, updates NaN handling, and detects exact-test ties with floating-point bit patterns.

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Sorted iterator KS test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sorted iterator API
src/sorted_iterator.rs, src/lib.rs
The crate exports sorted_iterator. IntoSortedIterator converts Vec<f64> references into Sorted, which clones and numerically sorts values with total_cmp.
KS sorted input processing
src/stats_tests/ks_test.rs
ks_onesample accepts IntoSortedIterator, reuses the sorted iterator, and applies the updated NaN policies.
Exact-test tie detection
src/stats_tests/ks_test.rs
Exact-test tie detection counts distinct floating-point bit patterns with a HashSet.

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This refactor changes the KS API to borrow input slices, but the current implementation still has an inconsistent input contract and correctness issues around NaN handling and signed-zero ties that can reject valid inputs or return an invalid exact p-value; an unconditional diagnostic print also remains. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues are addressed.

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In `@src/sorted_iterator.rs`:
- Around line 8-12: Add an IntoSortedIterator implementation for borrowed f64
slices (&[f64]) alongside the existing Vec<f64> implementation, delegating to
Sorted::new without requiring ownership. Add a regression test that calls
ks_onesample with data.as_slice() and verifies the expected result.

In `@src/stats_tests/ks_test.rs`:
- Around line 253-265: Update the seen_items key generation in the dedup_n
calculation to canonicalize both -0.0 and 0.0 to the same zero representation
before calling to_bits(), while preserving distinct nonzero values. Add a
regression test covering the sample [-0.0, 0.0] and verify it follows the
tie-handling path instead of producing an exact p-value.
- Around line 216-220: Update the NaNPolicy match in the sorted-iterator setup
so NaNPolicy::Emit filters out NaN values, while NaNPolicy::Error inspects the
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NaNPolicy::Propogate’s existing result and ensure samples without NaNs continue
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Comment on lines +8 to +12
impl IntoSortedIterator for Vec<f64> {
fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
Sorted::new(self)
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Support borrowed slice inputs.

IntoSortedIterator has an implementation only for Vec<f64>. Therefore ks_onesample cannot accept &[f64]. This does not meet the borrowed-slice API objective.

Add an implementation for &[f64]. Add a ks_onesample(data.as_slice(), ...) regression test.

Proposed fix
 impl IntoSortedIterator for Vec<f64> {
     fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
         Sorted::new(self)
     }
 }
+
+impl IntoSortedIterator for &[f64] {
+    fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
+        Sorted::new(self)
+    }
+}
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impl IntoSortedIterator for Vec<f64> {
fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
Sorted::new(self)
}
}
impl IntoSortedIterator for Vec<f64> {
fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
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fn into_sorted_iter(&self) -> Sorted {
Sorted::new(self)
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implementation, delegating to Sorted::new without requiring ownership. Add a
regression test that calls ks_onesample with data.as_slice() and verifies the
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let sorted_iter = match nan_policy {
NaNPolicy::Propogate => return Ok((f64::NAN, f64::NAN)),
NaNPolicy::Emit => return Err(KSTestError::SampleContainsNaN),
NaNPolicy::Error => data.into_sorted_iter().filter(|x| !x.is_nan()),
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the NaNPolicy contract.

NaNPolicy::Emit now returns SampleContainsNaN for every input, including samples without NaN values. NaNPolicy::Error silently removes NaN values instead of returning SampleContainsNaN.

The existing test at src/stats_tests/ks_test.rs Lines 649-656 expects Emit to remove NaN values and then return SampleTooSmall. This change makes that test fail.

Inspect the sorted input for NaN values. Return SampleContainsNaN only for NaNPolicy::Error. Filter NaN values for NaNPolicy::Emit.

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-    let sorted_iter = match nan_policy {
-        NaNPolicy::Propogate => return Ok((f64::NAN, f64::NAN)),
-        NaNPolicy::Emit => return Err(KSTestError::SampleContainsNaN),
-        NaNPolicy::Error => data.into_sorted_iter().filter(|x| !x.is_nan()),
-    };
+    let sorted = data.into_sorted_iter();
+    let contains_nan = sorted.clone().any(|x| x.is_nan());
+    match nan_policy {
+        NaNPolicy::Propogate if contains_nan => return Ok((f64::NAN, f64::NAN)),
+        NaNPolicy::Error if contains_nan => return Err(KSTestError::SampleContainsNaN),
+        _ => {}
+    }
+    let sorted_iter = sorted.filter(|x| !x.is_nan());
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let sorted_iter = match nan_policy {
NaNPolicy::Propogate => return Ok((f64::NAN, f64::NAN)),
NaNPolicy::Emit => return Err(KSTestError::SampleContainsNaN),
NaNPolicy::Error => data.into_sorted_iter().filter(|x| !x.is_nan()),
};
let sorted = data.into_sorted_iter();
let contains_nan = sorted.clone().any(|x| x.is_nan());
match nan_policy {
NaNPolicy::Propogate if contains_nan => return Ok((f64::NAN, f64::NAN)),
NaNPolicy::Error if contains_nan => return Err(KSTestError::SampleContainsNaN),
_ => {}
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In `@src/stats_tests/ks_test.rs` around lines 216 - 220, Update the NaNPolicy
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while NaNPolicy::Error inspects the input and returns SampleContainsNaN when any
NaN is present. Preserve NaNPolicy::Propogate’s existing result and ensure
samples without NaNs continue through normal processing.

Comment on lines +253 to +265
use std::collections::HashSet;

let mut seen_items = HashSet::new();

//hashing based on bits might have some
//unforeseen collisions, but as this is just for
//feasibility testing, I'm keeping it for now
let dedup_n: usize = sorted_iter
.clone()
.filter(|&e| seen_items.insert(e.to_bits()))
.count();

if dedup_n < n as usize {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Canonicalize signed zero before tie detection.

-0.0 and 0.0 are equal numeric observations, but to_bits() gives them different keys. A sample containing both values has a tie, yet this code allows the exact method to continue and return an invalid exact p-value.

Canonicalize zero before inserting the key. Add a regression test with [-0.0, 0.0].

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             let dedup_n: usize = sorted_iter
                 .clone()
-                .filter(|&e| seen_items.insert(e.to_bits()))
+                .filter(|&e| {
+                    let key = if e == 0.0 { 0 } else { e.to_bits() };
+                    seen_items.insert(key)
+                })
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let sorted_iter = data.into_sorted_iter().filter(filter_pred);
println!("{}", sorted_iter.clone().any(|x| x.is_nan()));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the diagnostic output.

Line 234 always prints false after the NaN-policy handling. It changes library stdout behavior and performs an unnecessary full iterator scan.

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-    println!("{}", sorted_iter.clone().any(|x| x.is_nan()));
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I got stuck on this too. The difficult part seems to be that the property we want to express is about the values yielded by the iterator, rather than something its type necessarily enforces. A structure like a B-tree can guarantee ordering as an invariant, but an arbitrary iterator generally can't.

There's also a stronger assumption hiding here: the iterator is traversing a fixed dataset. That's more restrictive than just ExactSizeIterator, but it still doesn't seem sufficient to statically establish that the yielded values are ordered. Unless the data is already known to be sorted, I think implementing such an API directly would be difficult, so how can we express or mark that the data has already been sorted?

Hint if you want it

What if we narrow the idea to: "assert that this iterator will uphold an ordering"?

More hint

Then the implementation needs to know something about adjacent elements -> perhaps Peekable.

Last hint

That also gives you a useful building block for something like merging two sorted arrays into a Left<Float> | Right<Float>.

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