/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.mahout.math.stats; import com.tdunning.math.stats.TDigest; /** * Computes on-line estimates of mean, variance and all five quartiles (notably including the * median). Since this is done in a completely incremental fashion (that is what is meant by * on-line) estimates are available at any time and the amount of memory used is constant. Somewhat * surprisingly, the quantile estimates are about as good as you would get if you actually kept all * of the samples. * <p/> * The method used for mean and variance is Welford's method. See * <p/> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#On-line_algorithm * <p/> * The method used for computing the quartiles is a simplified form of the stochastic approximation * method described in the article "Incremental Quantile Estimation for Massive Tracking" by Chen, * Lambert and Pinheiro * <p/> * See * <p/> * http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.105.1580 */ public class OnlineSummarizer { private TDigest quantiles = TDigest.createDigest(100.0); // mean and variance estimates private double mean; private double variance; // number of samples seen so far private int n; public void add(double sample) { n++; double oldMean = mean; mean += (sample - mean) / n; double diff = (sample - mean) * (sample - oldMean); variance += (diff - variance) / n; quantiles.add(sample); } public int getCount() { return n; } public double getMean() { return mean; } public double getSD() { return Math.sqrt(variance); } public double getMin() { return getQuartile(0); } public double getMax() { return getQuartile(4); } public double getQuartile(int i) { return quantiles.quantile(0.25 * i); } public double quantile(double q) { return quantiles.quantile(q); } public double getMedian() { return getQuartile(2); } }