-- $Id: moments.lua,v 1.2 2001/01/05 01:35:56 doug Exp $ -- http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ -- implemented by: Roberto Ierusalimschy local nums = {} local n = 0 local sum = 0 while 1 do local line = read() if line == nil then break end line = line+0 -- convert line to number sum = sum + line n = n + 1 nums[n] = line end local mean = sum/n local average_deviation, variance, skew, kurtosis = 0, 0, 0, 0 for i = 1, n do local deviation = nums[i] - mean average_deviation = average_deviation + abs(deviation) variance = variance + deviation^2 skew = skew + deviation^3 kurtosis = kurtosis + deviation^4 end average_deviation = average_deviation/n variance = variance/(n-1) local standard_deviation = sqrt(variance) if variance ~= 0 then skew = skew / (n * variance * standard_deviation) kurtosis = kurtosis/(n * variance * variance) - 3.0 end sort(nums) local mid = floor(n/2) local median if mod(n,2) == 1 then median = nums[mid+1] else median = (nums[mid] + nums[mid+1])/2 end write(format("n: %d\n", n)) write(format("median: %f\n", median)) write(format("mean: %f\n", mean)) write(format("average_deviation: %f\n", average_deviation)) write(format("standard_deviation: %f\n", standard_deviation)) write(format("variance: %f\n", variance)) write(format("skew: %f\n", skew)) write(format("kurtosis: %f\n", kurtosis))