simple-statistics

What is simple-statistics?

The simple-statistics npm package provides a comprehensive set of statistical tools and functions for performing various statistical analyses. It is designed to be easy to use and covers a wide range of statistical operations, from basic descriptive statistics to more complex regression analysis.

What are simple-statistics's main functionalities?

Descriptive Statistics

This feature allows you to calculate basic descriptive statistics such as mean, median, and variance. The code sample demonstrates how to compute these statistics for a given dataset.

const ss = require('simple-statistics');
const data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
const mean = ss.mean(data);
const median = ss.median(data);
const variance = ss.variance(data);
console.log(`Mean: ${mean}, Median: ${median}, Variance: ${variance}`);

Probability Distributions

This feature provides functions to work with various probability distributions, including normal and binomial distributions. The code sample shows how to generate a random normal value and a binomial distribution.

const ss = require('simple-statistics');
const normal = ss.randomNormal(0, 1);
const binomial = ss.binomialDistribution(10, 0.5);
console.log(`Random Normal Value: ${normal}, Binomial Distribution: ${binomial}`);

Regression Analysis

This feature allows you to perform regression analysis, including linear regression. The code sample demonstrates how to compute a linear regression line for a given dataset.

const ss = require('simple-statistics');
const data = [[0, 1], [1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5]];
const regression = ss.linearRegression(data);
const regressionLine = ss.linearRegressionLine(regression);
console.log(`Regression Line: y = ${regression.m}x + ${regression.b}`);

Hypothesis Testing

This feature provides functions for performing hypothesis testing, such as t-tests. The code sample shows how to perform a two-sample t-test on two datasets.

const ss = require('simple-statistics');
const tTest = ss.tTestTwoSample([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]);
console.log(`T-Test Result: ${tTest}`);

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README

Simple Statistics

A JavaScript implementation of descriptive, regression, and inference statistics.

Implemented in literate JavaScript with no dependencies, designed to work in all modern browsers (including IE) as well as in node.js.

• :green_book: API Documentation
• :chart_with_upwards_trend: Benchmarks
• :kissing: A list of other statistics libraries

Installation

• I'm using Node.js, Webpack, Browserify, Rollup, or another module bundler, and install packages from npm.
  • First, install the simple-statistics module, using npm install simple-statistics, then include the code with require or import:
  • I use the require function to use modules in my project. (most likely)
    • When you use require, you have the freedom to assign the module to any variable name you want, but you need to specify the module's name exactly: in this case, 'simple-statistics'. The require method returns an object with all of the module's methods attached to it.
      

      var ss = require('simple-statistics')

  • I use import to use modules in my project. I'm probably using Babel, @std/esm, Webpack, or Rollup.
    • Import all functions under the ss object:

      import * as ss from 'simple-statistics'

      Include a specific named export:

      import {min} from 'simple-statistics'

      Simple statistics has only named exports for ES6.
• I'm not using a module bundler. I'm writing a web page, and want to include simple-statistics using a script tag.
  • I want to support all browsers
    • When you use simple-statistics from a script tag, you don't get to choose the variable name it is assigned to: simple-statistics will always become available globally as the variable ss. You can reassign this variable to another name if you want to, but doing so is optional.

      <script src='https://unpkg.com/simple-statistics@7.0.6/dist/simple-statistics.min.js'>
      </script>
      

  • I want to use ES6 modules in a browser and I'm willing to only support new browsers to do it
    • This module works great with the ?module query parameter of unpkg. If you specify type='module' in your script tag, you'll be able to import simple-statistics directly - through index.js and with true ES6 import syntax and behavior.

      <script type='module'>
      import {min} from "https://unpkg.com/simple-statistics@7.0.6/index.js?module"
      console.log(min([1, 2, 3]))
      </script>
      

      This feature is still experimental in unpkg and very bleeding-edge.