Re: Map and functional constructs to replace iterative statements
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- Subject: [mg96884] Re: Map and functional constructs to replace iterative statements
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
percentChange[previousValue_, currentValue_] :=
100*(currentValue - previousValue)/previousValue
timeSeries = Table[RandomReal[{-1, 1}], {10}]
percentChange @@@ Partition[ timeSeries, 2, 1]
??
Regards
Jens
Andreas wrote:
> I have begun to replace Table, Do, While, or For, but in my thinking with Map, Inner, Outer and other functional programming constructs as I learn more about Mathematica.
>
> But, I'm stuck. I need to figure out how to use Map (or some related approach) when a function needs both a current value and a previous value in a time series, such as a percentage change function (or perhaps more generally stated, when I need to refer to previous values in a series or even previous calculations). But first a simple case:
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> percentChange[currentValue_, previousValue_] := 100 * ( currentValue - previousValue) / previousValue
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> I know how to apply this iteratively, but how can I do it with Map or some other functional construct?
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> Say I have a list: timeSeries
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> I thought to try something like this:
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> Map[percentChange[?,?], timeSeries]
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> but I don't know how what to put in for "?".
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> Any help much appreciated.
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> Thx.
>