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6 dbcolstats - compute statistics on a fsdb column
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9 dbcolstats [-amS] [-c ConfidenceFraction] [-q NumberOfQuantiles]
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13 Compute statistics over a COLUMN of data. Records containing non-
14 numeric data are considered null do not contribute to the stats (with
15 the "-a" option they are treated as zeros).
16 Confidence intervals are a t-test (+/- (t_{a/2})*s/sqrt(n)) and assume
18 the population takes a normal distribution with a small number of
19 samples (< 100).
20 By default, all statistics are computed for as a population sample
22 (with an ``n-1'' term), not as representing the whole population (using
23 ``n''). Select between them with --sample or --nosample. When you
24 measure the entire population, use the latter option.
25 The output of this program is probably best looked at after
27 reformatting with dblistize.
28 Dbcolstats runs in O(1) memory. Median or quantile requires sorting
30 the data and invokes dbsort. Sorting will run in constant RAM but
31 O(number of records) disk space. If median or quantile is required and
32 the data is already sorted, dbcolstats will run more efficiently with
33 the -S option.
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36 -a or --include-non-numeric
37 Compute stats over all records (treat non-numeric records as zero
38 rather than just ignoring them).
39 -c FRACTION or --confidence FRACTION
41 Specify FRACTION for the confidence interval. Defaults to 0.95 for
42 a 95% confidence factor.
43 -f FORMAT or --format FORMAT
45 Specify a printf(3)-style format for output statistics. Defaults
46 to "%.5g".
47 -m or --median
49 Compute median value. (Will sort data if necessary.) (Median is
50 the quantitle for N=2.)
51 -q N or --quantile N
53 Compute quantile (quartile when N is 4), or an arbitrary quantile
54 for other values of N, where the scores that are 1 Nth of the way
55 across the population.
56 --sample
58 Compute sample population statistics (e.g., the sample standard
59 deviation), assuming n-1 degrees of freedom.
60 --nosample
62 Compute whole population statistics (e.g., the population standard
63 devation).
64 -S or --pre-sorted
66 Assume data is already sorted. With one -S, we check and confirm
67 this precondition. When repeated, we skip the check. (This flag
68 is ignored if quartiles are not requested.)
69 --parallelism=N or "-j N"
71 Allow sorting to happen in parallel. Defaults on. (Only relevant
72 if using non-pre-sorted data with quantiles.)
73 -F or --fs or --fieldseparator S
75 Specify the field (column) separator as "S". See dbfilealter for
76 valid field separators.
77 -T TmpDir
79 where to put temporary data. Only used if median or quantiles are
80 requested. Also uses environment variable TMPDIR, if -T is not
81 specified. Default is /tmp.
82 -k KeyField
84 Do multi-stats, grouped by each key. Assumes keys are sorted.
85 (Use dbmultistats to guarantee sorting order.)
86 --output-on-no-input
88 Enables null output (all fields are "-", n is 0) if we get input
89 with a schema but no records. Without this option, just output the
90 schema but no rows. Default: no output if no input.
91 This module also supports the standard fsdb options:
93 -d Enable debugging output.
95 -i or --input InputSource
97 Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or "-" for standard
98 input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue
99 objects.
100 -o or --output OutputDestination
102 Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or "-" for
103 standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or
104 Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
105 --autorun or --noautorun
107 By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter
108 objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The
109 "--(no)autorun" option controls that behavior within Perl.
110 --help
112 Show help.
113 --man
115 Show full manual.
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118 Input:
119 #fsdb absdiff
120 0
121 0.046953
122 0.072074
123 0.075413
124 0.094088
125 0.096602
126 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbrow
127 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbcol event clock
128 # | dbrowdiff clock
129 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbcol absdiff
130 Command:
132 cat data.fsdb | dbcolstats absdiff
133 Output:
135 #fsdb mean:d stddev:d pct_rsd:d conf_range:d conf_low:d conf_high:d conf_pct:d sum:d sum_squared:d min:d max:d n:q
136 0.064188 0.036194 56.387 0.037989 0.026199 0.102180.95 0.38513 0.031271 0 0.096602 6
137 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbrow
138 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbcol event clock
139 # | dbrowdiff clock
140 # | /home/johnh/BIN/DB/dbcol absdiff
141 # | dbcolstats absdiff
142 # 0.95 confidence intervals assume normal distribution and small n.
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145 dbmultistats(1), handles multiple experiments in a single file.
146 dblistize(1), to pretty-print the output of dbcolstats.
148 dbcolpercentile(1), to compute an even more general version of
150 median/quantiles.
151 dbcolstatscores(1), to compute z-scores or t-scores for each row
153 dbrvstatdiff(1), to see if two sample populations are statistically
155 different.
156 Fsdb.
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160 The algorithms used to compute variance have not been audited to check
161 for numerical stability. (See
162 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance).)
163 Variance may be incorrect when standard deviation is small relative to
164 the mean.
165 The field "conf_pct" implies percentage, but it's actually reported as
167 a fraction (0.95 means 95%).
168 Because of limits of floating point, statistics on numbers of widely
170 different scales may be incorrect. See the test cases
171 dbcolstats_extrema for examples.
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174 Copyright (C) 1991-2018 by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>
175 This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public
177 license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for
178 details.
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