ministat¶ ↑

• github.com/deanh/MiniStat

This is a simple package that generates simple statistical info on numerical data sets of a single variable. It’s nothing too fancy, but maybe just enough to coat your numbers with a thin layer of science. Or, at least to get you thinking about what it may take to do so.

• Pure Ruby

• It’s small and simple

• It’s probably good enough

• I haven’t profiled it against large data sets

• Naive median implementation requires a sort, but it could be done in linear time. Patches welcome.

• Missing tests for harmonic and geometric mean – the stats package I was generating test data with didn’t have them.

require 'ministat'

data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7,6,5,4,4]
d = MiniStat::Data.new(data) 

d.median             # => 4.5
d.mean               # => 4.5
d.mode               # => 4.0
d.q1                 # => 3.5
d.outliers           # => []
d.std_dev            # => 1.80277563773199
# and so on...

puts MiniStat::Data.new(data).to_s
# this outputs most everything

Hoe is your friend.

sudo gem install ministat

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