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Robert Jacques
sandford at jhu.edu
Sat Nov 7 12:55:45 PST 2009
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:56:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Robert Jacques wrote:
>> I'd recommend rolling that into a basic statistics struct containing
>> common single pass metrics: i.e. sum, mean, variance, min, max, etc.
>
> Well the problem is that if you want to compute several one-pass
> statistics in one pass, you'd have to invent means to combine these
> functions. That ability is already present in reduce, e.g. reduce(min,
> max)(range) yields a pair containing the min and the max element after
> exactly one pass through range.
>
> Andrei
Yes, but reduce(mean, std)(range) doesn't work. Even reduce(count) would
require the range to be mapped. Besides, in my use case I need lazy
evaluation, and I'd much rather add elements to a statistics struct, than
write a range wrapper.
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