From: Paul Sanchez <paul.NO@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T10:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: basic statistics library?

In article <no_spam-7132D1.13101030032005@news1.east.earthlink.net>,
 peajoe <no_spam@invalid.net> wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I am looking to do some basic statistics in ruby.  Mean, Variance, 
> Standard deviation, etc.   Does anyone know if there is a gem or a 
> library available for this?
> 
> More exactly, I want to take test scores for students and conver them to 
> A, B, C, D, F.  In order to calculate Grade Point Averages. 
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> peajoe

Don't know if this will meet your needs, it's not fancy but it works for 
me...


class SimpleStats
  attr_reader :n, :sampleMean, :min, :max

  def initialize
    reset
  end

  def reset
    @n = 0
    @min = 1.0 / 0.0
    @max = -@min
    @sumsq = @sampleMean = @min / @min
  end

  def newObs(datum)
    x = datum.to_f
    @max = x if !@max || x > @max
    @min = x if !@min || x < @min
    @n += 1
    if (@n > 1)
      delta = x - sampleMean
      @sampleMean += delta / @n
      @sumsq += delta * (x - @sampleMean)
    else
      @sampleMean = x
      @sumsq = 0.0
    end
  end

  def sampleVariance
    @sumsq / (@n - 1)
  end

  def stdDeviation
    Math::sqrt sampleVariance
  end
end