/* statistics/wmean_source.c * * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 Jim Davies, Brian Gough * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at * your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ double FUNCTION (gsl_stats, wmean) (const BASE w[], const size_t wstride, const BASE data[], const size_t stride, const size_t size) { /* Compute the weighted arithmetic mean M of a dataset using the recurrence relation M(n) = M(n-1) + (data[n] - M(n-1)) (w(n)/(W(n-1) + w(n))) W(n) = W(n-1) + w(n) */ long double wmean = 0; long double W = 0; size_t i; for (i = 0; i < size; i++) { BASE wi = w[i * wstride]; if (wi > 0) { W += wi; wmean += (data[i * stride] - wmean) * (wi / W); } } return wmean; }