Re: Conditions with Statistical Functions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg66122] Re: Conditions with Statistical Functions
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:21:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 4/29/06 at 3:40 AM, gregory.lypny at videotron.ca (Gregory Lypny)
wrote:
>Is it possible to attach conditions to statistical functions, for
>example, computing the mean of a list but only of the numbers that
>are bigger than 100?
The code below demonstrates a simple way of computing the mean for a set of random integers between 1 and 200 that are greater than 100.
In[7]:=
data=Table[Random[Integer,{1,200}],{1000}];
Mean[data]//N
Mean@Cases[data,_?(#>100&)]//N
Out[8]=
99.239
Out[9]=
150.678
If you wanted, you could unprotect the function Mean and add a new definition along the lines of
Mean[data_List, thres_?NumericQ]:= Mean@Cases[data, _?(#>thres&)]
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