The current implementation should allow updates to the past, but it will
only ever give you an average at the latest data point.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov (JIRA)
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I am also using this with slight modifications to enable to use with
> map-reduce. 2 suggestions i implemented on a side: updates to the past
>  (unordered input w.r.t. to time of sampling, albeit potentially less
> numerically stable) and combining to use with MR.
> http://weatheringthrutechdays.blogspot.com/2011/04/follow-up-for-mean-summarizer-post.html.
> No algorithm in Mahout currently uses MR for summarizing inputs but it
> might. These improvements allowed to implement Pig functions that run that
> formulas.
>

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