ndarray.js (3931B)
1 /** 2 * @license Apache-2.0 3 * 4 * Copyright (c) 2020 The Stdlib Authors. 5 * 6 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16 * limitations under the License. 17 */ 18 19 'use strict'; 20 21 // MODULES // 22 23 var float64ToFloat32 = require( '@stdlib/number/float64/base/to-float32' ); 24 25 26 // MAIN // 27 28 /** 29 * Computes the variance of a single-precision floating-point strided array ignoring `NaN` values and using a one-pass trial mean algorithm. 30 * 31 * ## Method 32 * 33 * - This implementation uses a one-pass trial mean approach, as suggested by Chan et al (1983). 34 * 35 * ## References 36 * 37 * - Neely, Peter M. 1966. "Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computation of Means, Standard Deviations and Correlation Coefficients." _Communications of the ACM_ 9 (7). Association for Computing Machinery: 496–99. doi:[10.1145/365719.365958](https://doi.org/10.1145/365719.365958). 38 * - Ling, Robert F. 1974. "Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computing Sample Means and Variances." _Journal of the American Statistical Association_ 69 (348). American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 859–66. doi:[10.2307/2286154](https://doi.org/10.2307/2286154). 39 * - Chan, Tony F., Gene H. Golub, and Randall J. LeVeque. 1983. "Algorithms for Computing the Sample Variance: Analysis and Recommendations." _The American Statistician_ 37 (3). American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 242–47. doi:[10.1080/00031305.1983.10483115](https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1983.10483115). 40 * - Schubert, Erich, and Michael Gertz. 2018. "Numerically Stable Parallel Computation of (Co-)Variance." In _Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management_. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:[10.1145/3221269.3223036](https://doi.org/10.1145/3221269.3223036). 41 * 42 * @param {PositiveInteger} N - number of indexed elements 43 * @param {number} correction - degrees of freedom adjustment 44 * @param {Float32Array} x - input array 45 * @param {integer} stride - stride length 46 * @param {NonNegativeInteger} offset - starting index 47 * @returns {number} variance 48 * 49 * @example 50 * var Float32Array = require( '@stdlib/array/float32' ); 51 * var floor = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/floor' ); 52 * 53 * var x = new Float32Array( [ 2.0, 1.0, 2.0, -2.0, -2.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, NaN, NaN ] ); 54 * var N = floor( x.length / 2 ); 55 * 56 * var v = snanvariancech( N, 1, x, 2, 1 ); 57 * // returns 6.25 58 */ 59 function snanvariancech( N, correction, x, stride, offset ) { 60 var mu; 61 var ix; 62 var M2; 63 var nc; 64 var M; 65 var d; 66 var v; 67 var n; 68 var i; 69 70 if ( N <= 0 ) { 71 return NaN; 72 } 73 if ( N === 1 || stride === 0 ) { 74 v = x[ offset ]; 75 if ( v === v && N-correction > 0.0 ) { 76 return 0.0; 77 } 78 return NaN; 79 } 80 ix = offset; 81 82 // Find an estimate for the mean... 83 for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ ) { 84 v = x[ ix ]; 85 if ( v === v ) { 86 mu = v; 87 break; 88 } 89 ix += stride; 90 } 91 if ( i === N ) { 92 return NaN; 93 } 94 ix += stride; 95 i += 1; 96 97 // Compute the variance... 98 M2 = 0.0; 99 M = 0.0; 100 n = 1; 101 for ( i; i < N; i++ ) { 102 v = x[ ix ]; 103 if ( v === v ) { 104 d = float64ToFloat32( v - mu ); 105 M2 = float64ToFloat32( M2 + float64ToFloat32( d*d ) ); 106 M = float64ToFloat32( M + d ); 107 n += 1; 108 } 109 ix += stride; 110 } 111 nc = n - correction; 112 if ( nc <= 0.0 ) { 113 return NaN; 114 } 115 return float64ToFloat32( float64ToFloat32(M2/nc) - float64ToFloat32(float64ToFloat32(M/n)*float64ToFloat32(M/nc)) ); // eslint-disable-line max-len 116 } 117 118 119 // EXPORTS // 120 121 module.exports = snanvariancech;