Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-06 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
By ear On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 07:51 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > You mean to say relative math is easy? > > Bob S > > > > On Aug 5, 2019, at 14:57 , Stephen Barncard via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > This is the kind of

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
You mean to say relative math is easy? Bob S > On Aug 5, 2019, at 14:57 , Stephen Barncard via use-livecode > wrote: > > This is the kind of math I use every day, without knowing what I’m doing. > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 09:21 Mark Wieder via use-livecode < >

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
This is the kind of math I use every day, without knowing what I’m doing. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 09:21 Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 8/5/19 9:00 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > > have to weight the measured values to determine the maximum

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/5/19 9:00 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: have to weight the measured values to determine the maximum (and the Q as desired). Urk. Now it's my turn to have misspoken. The maximum is easy to measure. But looking at the clustering of values to determine the Q of the bandpass filter

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/5/19 1:48 AM, hh via use-livecode wrote: [@Mark: A (weighted) mean is a location parameter, one number.] Yes, exactly. In sum, Dagobert wants to change the method on base of the raw data or change the raw data such that the results are the wished ones. (Honi soit qui mal y pense ...)

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
When computing limits for distribution categories given frequencies the following may be useful: A number q is a p%-quantile of a data set If the percentage of data nums <= q is >= p% and the percentage of data nums >= q is >= (100-p)% For each percentage p there is an interval [lowerV,upperV]

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
> I wrote: > In order to find these limits simply sort the random data (a random > sample drawn out of the raw data) and take the values that have > approximately 30% or 80% of the values below them (no scaling needed > for that). In statistical terms: Find the 30% and 80% quantiles. Please

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
I wrote: > In order to find these limits simply sort the random data (a random > sample drawn out of the raw data) and take the values that have > approximately 30% or 80% of the values below them (no scaling needed > for that). In statistical terms: Find the 30% and 80% quantiles. Sorry, read

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-05 Thread hh via use-livecode
[@Mark: A (weighted) mean is a location parameter, one number.] Here the customer (say Dagobert Duck) wants to change/weight the distribution of the data. As Dar says, he could do a mapping from 0-800 to bins as "bad, neutral, good" simply by setting limits for the bins. For example 0-30 = bad,

RE: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
, 2019 7:07 PM To: dsc--- via use-livecode Cc: Mark Wieder Subject: Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers On 8/4/19 3:00 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode wrote: > I'm unsure how often 800 or so changes. I'll call it 800, it is just a name. Values can range from 0 through 800. > > You can map

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/4/19 3:00 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode wrote: I'm unsure how often 800 or so changes. I'll call it 800, it is just a name. Values can range from 0 through 800. You can map a number in that range to 0-1 by dividing by 800. That is, scaled1(n) is n/800. I guess you want to map each number

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread dsc--- via use-livecode
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Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
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RE: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
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Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
I was thinking the same, but was to afraid to say it. Yes, the actual name is "lying". However, there might be an honest attempt to display crowded dots or icons. > On Aug 4, 2019, at 2:19 PM, hh via use-livecode > wrote: > >> Ralph D. wrote: >> I'm sure there's an actual name for doing this

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
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Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Ralph D. wrote: > I'm sure there's an actual name for doing this in the statistician's > world but I don't know what it is. This has nothing to do with "statistics". This is simply "try to lie by data cheating". ___ use-livecode mailing list

RE: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Cell: 518-796-9332 -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2019 3:03 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dar Scott Consulting Subject: Re: [OT] Weighted distribution

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/4/19 11:49 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: I have a set of raw numbers(6,000 of them from 0 to 800 or so). It was easy to normalize these numbers from 0 to 100. But as I look at the results I see that there is one at to top(100) and a few in the 90s and many more in the 70s and

Re: [OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
Just to clarify... Is this right? The max of the raw numbers maps to 100. The min of the raw numbers maps to 0. (Or is it 0 maps to 0?) The middle number maps to something like 70. (Or is it half of the max maps to 70?) The mapping is smooth. Where 70 might be something else. > On Aug 4, 2019,

[OT] Weighted distribution of Numbers

2019-08-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
I have a set of raw numbers(6,000 of them from 0 to 800 or so). It was easy to normalize these numbers from 0 to 100. But as I look at the results I see that there is one at to top(100) and a few in the 90s and many more in the 70s and 80s. I need to make these numbers more evenly distributed and