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Weighted PHP Statistics: Calculate statistics on weighted data sets

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This class can calculate statistics on weighted data sets.

It can take as parameters one data set array with numeric values and another array with the respective weights for the values in the first parameter array.

The class can calculate several types of common statistics on the data set values considering the weight values, like: the mean, average, standard deviation, percentile and skew.

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There are many types of statistical functions that can be applied to data sets like the mean, average, standard deviation, etc..

This class implements a variant version of those statistical functions by applying variable weights to each number value in the data set to which it is computing the values of those statistical functions.

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Example

<?php
include 'weightedstats.php';

//First argument is the variable of interest, in array form
$inputs = array(222,190,49,106,148,464,221,134,109,90,224,63,262,182,87,166,75,291,205,155,432,226,259,257,297,94,93,120,138,224,77,276,323,78,98,45,48,63,118,410,116,1091,449,1344,201,23,346,271,214,184,25,92,185,41,225,284,303,248,35,409,125,1279,153,184,226,59,160,88,304,408,33,337,615,20,97,208,334,560,306,142,133,19,274,56,167,104,206,366,56,4476,392,222,272,119,255,362,23,239,292,357);

//Second argument is the sample weight, where index 0 is the weight for $inputs[0], etc
$weights = array(795,948,1665,8134,2140,9884,14275,7242,7601,4160,14228,12147,2082,7071,20988,7889,6480,795,10062,2740,5415,8391,14312,14228,7791,2184,5522,14275,12649,3866,4346,4774,6083,15805,10875,5112,1444,20988,8224,14037,14312,7071,2328,10321,963,948,9547,8883,2870,1352,7403,7451,3181,6652,6439,3268,18789,3064,800,3913,7062,2991,10321,9343,9874,4550,4782,2991,5415,9547,2328,3622,3181,1444,6652,2740,4071,2450,4335,1351,2930,948,3622,7062,35714,1931,11584,7442,7986,9206,2450,18132,4346,1369,1448,5272,4931,9327,4445,21477);

//The two arrays must match lengths, otherwise a fatal error is thrown
$ws = new weightedstats($inputs, $weights);

print
"<html><body><h1>Weighted Statistics Class Example</h1><dl>";
print
"<dt>Arithmetic Mean</dt>";
print
"<dd>The following is the <b>incorrect</b> mean for a weighted data set: ";
print
array_sum($inputs)/count($inputs);
print
"</dd><dt>Weighted Mean</dt>";
print
"<dd>This is the correct way to perform the mean when the data provided has statistical weights: ";
print
$ws->average();
print
"</dd><dt>Standard Deviation</dt><dd>";
print
$ws->stdev();
print
"</dd><dt>Quartile 1</dt><dd>";
print
$ws->percentile(25);
print
"</dd><dt>Median</dt><dd>";
print
$ws->percentile(50);
print
"</dd><dt>Quartile 3</dt><dd>";
print
$ws->percentile(75);
print
"</dd><dt>Skew</dt><dd>";
print
$ws->skew();
print
"</dd></dl></body></html>";
?>


Details

Many datasets have individual points which have differing weights than other points in the set. These datasets will include that information in a Weight column. Attempting to calculate statistics in a traditional way on such data will give incorrect results. This class has packaged the modified methods for common stats so they can be reliably performed when needed.

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