svariancech.c (3134B)
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 #include "stdlib/stats/base/svariancech.h" 20 #include <stdint.h> 21 22 /** 23 * Computes the variance of a single-precision floating-point strided array using a one-pass trial mean algorithm. 24 * 25 * ## Method 26 * 27 * - This implementation uses a one-pass trial mean approach, as suggested by Chan et al (1983). 28 * 29 * ## References 30 * 31 * - 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). 32 * - 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). 33 * - 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). 34 * - 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). 35 * 36 * @param N number of indexed elements 37 * @param correction degrees of freedom adjustment 38 * @param X input array 39 * @param stride stride length 40 * @return output value 41 */ 42 float stdlib_strided_svariancech( const int64_t N, const float correction, const float *X, const int64_t stride ) { 43 int64_t ix; 44 int64_t i; 45 double dN; 46 double dM; 47 double n; 48 float mu; 49 float M2; 50 float M; 51 float d; 52 53 dN = (double)N; 54 n = dN - (double)correction; 55 if ( N <= 0 || n <= 0.0f ) { 56 return 0.0f / 0.0f; // NaN 57 } 58 if ( N == 1 || stride == 0 ) { 59 return 0.0f; 60 } 61 if ( stride < 0 ) { 62 ix = (1-N) * stride; 63 } else { 64 ix = 0; 65 } 66 // Use an estimate for the mean: 67 mu = X[ ix ]; 68 ix += stride; 69 70 // Compute the variance... 71 M2 = 0.0f; 72 M = 0.0f; 73 for ( i = 1; i < N; i++ ) { 74 d = X[ ix ] - mu; 75 M2 += d * d; 76 M += d; 77 ix += stride; 78 } 79 dM = (double)M; 80 return (float)((double)M2/n) - ( (float)(dM/dN) * (float)(dM/n) ); 81 }