characterize

by jden [e-mail]

characterize a set of data. made for the usecase of a commandline reporter for analysis scripts - but throws in some other basic stats goodies as well.

usage

var characterize = require('characterize');
var data = [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 30, 32, 50, 580 ];
characterize(data);

example output:

[ 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 30, 32, 50, 580 ]

Histogram:
[540, 600) │█	(1)
[480, 540) │	(0)
[420, 480) │	(0)
[360, 420) │	(0)
[300, 360) │	(0)
[240, 300) │	(0)
[180, 240) │	(0)
[120, 180) │	(0)
[60, 120)  │	(0)
[0, 60)    │██████████████	(14)

Boxplot:
├■███───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤

Distribution (percentiles):
0  :  1
25 :  2
50 :  5
75 :  32
100:  580

Variance:  20388.64
Std Deviation (population): 142.78879507860552

Measures of Central Tendency:
Mean  :  48.4
Median:  5
Mode  :  1

Possible Outliers:
580

other functions

• linearInterpolate
• quartiles
• percentile
• intervals
• magnitude
• outliers
• scale