/* * 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 org.apache.mahout.math.list.DoubleArrayList; /** * 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 boolean sorted = true; // the first several samples are kept so we can boot-strap our estimates cleanly private DoubleArrayList starter = new DoubleArrayList(100); // quartile estimates private final double[] q = new double[5]; // mean and variance estimates private double mean; private double variance; // number of samples seen so far private int n; public void add(double sample) { sorted = false; n++; double oldMean = mean; mean += (sample - mean) / n; double diff = (sample - mean) * (sample - oldMean); variance += (diff - variance) / n; if (n < 100) { starter.add(sample); } else if (n == 100 && starter != null) { // when we first reach 100 elements, we switch to incremental operation starter.add(sample); for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++) { q[i] = getQuartile(i); } // this signals any invocations of getQuartile at exactly 100 elements that we have // already switched to incremental operation starter = null; } else { // n >= 100 && starter == null q[0] = Math.min(sample, q[0]); q[4] = Math.max(sample, q[4]); double rate = 2 * (q[3] - q[1]) / n; q[1] += (Math.signum(sample - q[1]) - 0.5) * rate; q[2] += Math.signum(sample - q[2]) * rate; q[3] += (Math.signum(sample - q[3]) + 0.5) * rate; if (q[1] < q[0]) { q[1] = q[0]; } if (q[3] > q[4]) { q[3] = q[4]; } } } public int getCount() { return n; } public double getMean() { return mean; } public double getSD() { return Math.sqrt(variance); } public double getMin() { return getQuartile(0); } private void sort() { if (!sorted && starter != null) { starter.sort(); sorted = true; } } public double getMax() { return getQuartile(4); } public double getQuartile(int i) { if (n > 100 || starter == null) { return q[i]; } else { sort(); switch (i) { case 0: if (n == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Must have at least one sample to estimate minimum value"); } return starter.get(0); case 1: case 2: case 3: if (n >= 2) { double x = i * (n - 1) / 4.0; int k = (int) Math.floor(x); double u = x - k; return starter.get(k) * (1 - u) + starter.get(k + 1) * u; } else { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Must have at least two samples to estimate quartiles"); } case 4: if (n == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Must have at least one sample to estimate maximum value"); } return starter.get(starter.size() - 1); default: throw new IllegalArgumentException("Quartile number must be in the range [0..4] not " + i); } } } public double getMedian() { return getQuartile(2); } }