On Tuesday, 17 September 2019 at 14:06:41 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 September 2019 at 01:53:39 UTC, Brett wrote:
Many times I have to get statistical info which is simply
compute statistics on a data set that may be generating or
already generated.
The code usually is
M = max(M, v);
m = min(m, v);
but other things like standard deviation, mean, etc might need
to be computed.
This may need to be done on several data sets simultaneously.
is there any way that one could just compute them in one line
that is efficient, probably using ranges? I'd like to avoid
having to loop through a data set multiple times as it would
be quite inefficient.
You can use `std.algorithm.fold` to compute multiple results in
a single pass:
auto stats = v.fold!(max, min);
M = stats[0];
m = stats[1];
That may work but I'm already iterating and doing it inside a
loop.
I'm I'm specifically talking about is sort of abstract the
computation of each statistic type.
If I were to convert my algorithm to be a range then maybe I
could do similar to what you are saying but I would still require
using more than min and max(such as avg, std, and others).
It may be viable but I'll have to think about it. I tend to find
myself writing the same abstract code to compute the same
statistics quite often(sometimes it deals with a history and
sometimes not. E.g., I might want to compute the average and keep
the last 5, or the 5 largest).
