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[PATCH] Add standard deviation function to Math Module

Feature #2322: [PATCH] Add standard deviation function to Math Module

Added by danielc192 (Daniel Cohen) about 16 years ago. Updated almost 14 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
mrkn (Kenta Murata)
Target version:
2.0.0
[ruby-core:26473]

Description

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This patch adds a Standard Deviation function to the Math Module. It takes an array and finds the standard deviation of all its elements, as long as they are numbers.
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add_stdev.diff (982 Bytes) add_stdev.diff Patch to add standard deviation feature danielc192 (Daniel Cohen), 11/02/2009 05:29 AM

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Related to Ruby - Feature #2321: [PATCH] Array Module sum and mean featuresRejectedActions

Updated by znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA) over 15 years ago Actions
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 #1

  • Target version set to 2.0.0

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Updated by nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) almost 14 years ago Actions
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 #2 [ruby-core:43388]

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Assignee set to mrkn (Kenta Murata)

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) almost 14 years ago Actions
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 #3

  • Status changed from Open to Assigned

Updated by mrkn (Kenta Murata) almost 14 years ago Actions
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 #4 [ruby-core:43476]

  • Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

Why do we need to specially treat the 2nd central moment, that is standard deviation, than the other nth moment, such as skewness (3rd) and kurtosis (4th)?

You can use NArray for that reason. See http://narray.rubyforge.org/index.html.en

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