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Re: mean and sdev [message #11130 is a reply to message #11069]

Mon, 02 March 1998 00:00

Dr. G. Scott Lett
Messages: 14
Registered: February 1998

Junior Member

The MOMENT function is obscure and slow when all you need is themean and
standard deviation, so we're adding the more obvious MEAN,
STDDEV, VARIANCE and other statistics functions for IDL 5.1.

Best wishes,
Scott Lett

> R. Bauer (r.bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
>
>> I 'd like to know if a build in function somewhere is available to get
>> means and standard deviations.
>
> I use the MOMENT function for most of these simple statistical
> measurements.
>
> stats = Moment(data, STD=standardDeviation)
> mean = stats[0]
> Print, mean, standardDeviation
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Phone: 970-221-0438
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: mean and sdev By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 03 March 1998 00:00
		Re: mean and sdev By: Alejandro C. Frery on Tue, 10 March 1998 00:00
		Re: mean and sdev By: Dr. G. Scott Lett on Mon, 02 March 1998 00:00
		Re: mean and sdev By: wmc on Mon, 02 March 1998 00:00
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