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Statistics-Descriptive-3.0800
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NAME

Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother - Base module for smoothing statistical data

VERSION

version 3.0800

SYNOPSIS

use Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother;
my $smoother = Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother->instantiate({
         method   => 'exponential',
         coeff    => 0.5,
         data     => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
         samples  => [110, 120, 130, 140, 150],
  });
my @smoothed_data = $smoother->get_smoothed_data();

DESCRIPTION

This module provide methods to smooth the trend of a series of statistical data.

The methods provided are the Exponential and the Weighted Exponential (see respectively Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother::Exponential and Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother::Weightedexponential for more details).

This class is just a factory that will instantiate the object to perform the chosen smoothing algorithm.

METHODS

Statistics::Descriptive::Smoother->instantiate({});

Create a new Smoother object.

This method require several parameters:

method

Method used for the smoothing. Allowed values are: exponential and weightedexponential

coeff

Smoothing coefficient. It needs to be in the [0;1] range, otherwise undef will be reutrned. 0 means that the series is not smoothed at all, while 1 the series is universally equal to the initial unsmoothed value.

data

Array ref with the data of the series. At least 2 values are needed to smooth the series, undef is returned otherwise.

samples

Array ref with the samples each data value has been built with. This is an optional parameter since it is not used by all the smoothing algorithm.

$smoother->get_smoothing_coeff();

Returns the smoothing coefficient.

$smoother->set_smoothing_coeff(0.5);

Set the smoothing coefficient value. It needs to be in the [0;1] range, otherwise undef will be reutrned.

AUTHOR

Fabio Ponciroli

COPYRIGHT

Copyright(c) 2012 by Fabio Ponciroli.

LICENSE

This file is licensed under the MIT/X11 License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SUPPORT

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to bug-statistics-descriptive at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Statistics-Descriptive. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

https://github.com/shlomif/perl-Statistics-Descriptive

git clone git://github.com/shlomif/perl-Statistics-Descriptive.git

AUTHOR

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/shlomif/perl-Statistics-Descriptive/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 1997 by Jason Kastner, Andrea Spinelli, Colin Kuskie, and others.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.