'use strict'; module.exports = function (math) { var Matrix = math.type.Matrix, collection = math.collection, isCollection = collection.isCollection, size = require('../../util/array').size, isArray = Array.isArray; /** * Compute the mean value of matrix or a list with values. * In case of a multi dimensional array, the mean of the flattened array * will be calculated. When `dim` is provided, the maximum over the selected * dimension will be calculated. Parameter `dim` is zero-based. * * Syntax: * * math.mean(a, b, c, ...) * math.mean(A) * math.mean(A, dim) * * Examples: * * math.mean(2, 1, 4, 3); // returns 2.5 * math.mean([1, 2.7, 3.2, 4]); // returns 2.725 * * math.mean([[2, 5], [6, 3], [1, 7]], 0); // returns [3, 5] * math.mean([[2, 5], [6, 3], [1, 7]], 1); // returns [3.5, 4.5, 4] * * See also: * * median, min, max, sum, prod, std, var * * @param {... *} args A single matrix or or multiple scalar values * @return {*} The mean of all values */ math.mean = function mean(args) { if (arguments.length == 0) { throw new SyntaxError('Function mean requires one or more parameters (0 provided)'); } if (isCollection(args)) { if (arguments.length == 1) { // mean([a, b, c, d, ...]) return _mean(args); } else if (arguments.length == 2) { // mean([a, b, c, d, ...], dim) return _nmean(arguments[0], arguments[1]); } else { throw new SyntaxError('Wrong number of parameters'); } } else { // mean(a, b, c, d, ...) return _mean(arguments); } }; /** * Calculate the mean value in an n-dimensional array, returning a * n-1 dimensional array * @param {Array} array * @param {Number} dim * @return {Number} mean * @private */ function _nmean(array, dim){ var sum = collection.reduce(array, dim, math.add); var s = isArray(array) ? size(array) : array.size(); return math.divide(sum, s[dim]); } /** * Recursively calculate the mean value in an n-dimensional array * @param {Array} array * @return {Number} mean * @private */ function _mean(array) { var sum = 0; var num = 0; collection.deepForEach(array, function (value) { sum = math.add(sum, value); num++; }); if (num === 0) { throw new Error('Cannot calculate mean of an empty array'); } return math.divide(sum, num); } };