org.jaitools.numeric

Class ApproxMedianProcessor

java.lang.Object

org.jaitools.numeric.AbstractProcessor

org.jaitools.numeric.ApproxMedianProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Processor

public class ApproxMedianProcessor
extends AbstractProcessor

Processor for the approximate median Statistic.APPROX_MEDIAN. Calculation of an exact median is only possible by storing all sample values. For very large data streams, this processor will calculate an approximate median using the remedian estimator:

PJ Rousseeuw and GW Bassett (1990) The remedian: a robust averaging method for large data sets. Journal of the American Statistical Society 85:97-104

The remedian estimator performs badly with non-stationary data, e.g. a data stream that is monotonically increasing will result in an over-estimate. If possible (which it probably isn't), it will help to de-trend or randomly order the data prior to streaming it.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Michael Bedward

See Also:

Statistic, StreamingSampleStats

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ApproxMedianProcessor() Default constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Double	get(Statistic stat) Gets the value of the statistic calculated by this processor.
Collection<Statistic>	getSupported() Gets the Statistics supported by this processor.

Methods inherited from class org.jaitools.numeric.AbstractProcessor

addNoDataRange, addNoDataValue, addRange, addRange, get, getNoDataRanges, getNumAccepted, getNumNaN, getNumNoData, getNumOffered, getRanges, getRangesType, isAccepted, offer, setRangesType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ApproxMedianProcessor

public ApproxMedianProcessor()

Default constructor.

Method Detail

getSupported

public Collection<Statistic> getSupported()

Gets the Statistics supported by this processor.

Returns:

supported Statistics

get

public Double get(Statistic stat)

Gets the value of the statistic calculated by this processor.

Parameters:

stat - the specified statistic

Returns:

the value of the statistic if it has been calculated or Double.NaN otherwise