itercumean

Create an iterator which iteratively computes a cumulative arithmetic mean.

The cumulative arithmetic mean is defined as

Installation

npm install @stdlib/stats-iter-cumean

Usage

var itercumean = require( '@stdlib/stats-iter-cumean' );

itercumean( iterator )

Returns an iterator which iteratively computes a cumulative arithmetic mean.

var array2iterator = require( '@stdlib/array-to-iterator' );

var arr = array2iterator( [ 2.0, 1.0, 3.0, -7.0, -5.0 ] );
var it = itercumean( arr );

var m = it.next().value;
// returns 2.0

m = it.next().value;
// returns 1.5

m = it.next().value;
// returns 2.0

m = it.next().value;
// returns -0.25

m = it.next().value;
// returns -1.2

Notes

• If an iterated value is non-numeric (including NaN), the function returns NaN for all future iterations. If non-numeric iterated values are possible, you are advised to provide an iterator which type checks and handles non-numeric values accordingly.

Examples

var runif = require( '@stdlib/random-iter-uniform' );
var itercumean = require( '@stdlib/stats-iter-cumean' );

// Create an iterator for generating uniformly distributed pseudorandom numbers:
var rand = runif( -10.0, 10.0, {
    'seed': 1234,
    'iter': 100
});

// Create an iterator for iteratively computing a cumulative mean:
var it = itercumean( rand );

// Perform manual iteration...
var v;
while ( true ) {
    v = it.next();
    if ( typeof v.value === 'number' ) {
        console.log( 'mean: %d', v.value );
    }
    if ( v.done ) {
        break;
    }
}

See Also

• @stdlib/stats-iter/cumidrange: create an iterator which iteratively computes a cumulative mid-range.
• @stdlib/stats-iter/cusum: create an iterator which iteratively computes a cumulative sum.
• @stdlib/stats-iter/mean: compute the arithmetic mean over all iterated values.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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