absdev_source.c

/* statistics/absdev_source.c
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 Jim Davies, Brian Gough
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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 */

double
FUNCTION(gsl_stats,absdev) (const BASE data[], const size_t stride, const size_t n)
{
  const double mean = FUNCTION(gsl_stats,mean)(data, stride, n);
  return FUNCTION(gsl_stats,absdev_m)(data, stride, n, mean);
}
    
double 
FUNCTION(gsl_stats,absdev_m) (const BASE data[], 
                              const size_t stride,
                              const size_t n, 
                              const double mean)
{
  /* takes a dataset and finds the absolute deviation */

  double sum = 0, absdev;
  size_t i;

  /* find the sum of the absolute deviations */
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
      const double delta = fabs(data[i * stride] - mean);
      sum += delta;
    }

  absdev = sum / n;

  return absdev;
}