LIST STAT STD DEV

From Second Life Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Description

Constant: integer LIST_STAT_STD_DEV = 5;

The integer constant LIST_STAT_STD_DEV has the value 5

Calculates the sample standard deviation of a list of numbers. Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out the values are, and is defined as the square root of the average of the squares of the numbers: <lsl> integer n = llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_NUM_COUNT, numList ); 1/n * llSqrt( llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_SUM_SQUARES , numList ) ); </lsl> The sample standard deviation is used when the list doesn't (or can't) include the entire set of numbers, like the mass of every prim in SL. The true standard deviation is therefore estimated by using the sample standard deviation, which is defined by, <lsl> integer n = llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_NUM_COUNT, numList ); 1/(n-1) * llSqrt( llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_SUM_SQUARES , numList ) ); </lsl> Another way to calculate the sample standard deviation is <lsl>

   list numList = [1,1,1,2,1000,1000,1000];
   integer n = llGetListLength( numList );
   float sum = 0;
   integer i;
   float mean = llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_MEAN, numList );
   for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
       float val = llList2Float( numList, i );
       float diff = val-mean;
       sum += ( diff )*( diff);
   }
   float sample_stdev = llSqrt( sum/((float)(n-1)) ); 
   float true_stdev = llSqrt( sum/((float)n) ); 
   llOwnerSay((string)true_stdev);
   llOwnerSay((string)sample_stdev);
   llOwnerSay((string)llListStatistics( LIST_STAT_STD_DEV, numList ));

} </lsl>

Related Articles

Functions

•  llListStatistics

Deep Notes

Search JIRA for related Issues

Signature

integer LIST_STAT_STD_DEV = 5;