RunStats_ is an Apache2 licensed Python module for online statistics and
online regression. Statistics and regression summaries are computed in a single
pass. Previous values are not recorded in summaries.
Long running systems often generate numbers summarizing performance. It could be the latency of a response or the time between requests. It's often useful to use these numbers in summary statistics like the arithmetic mean, minimum, standard deviation, etc. When many values are generated, computing these summaries can be computationally intensive. It may even be infeasible to keep every recorded value. In such cases computing online statistics and online regression is necessary.
In other cases, you may only have one opportunity to observe all the recorded values. Python's generators work exactly this way. Traditional methods for calculating the variance and other higher moments requires multiple passes over the data. With generators, this is not possible and so computing statistics in a single pass is necessary.
There are also scenarios where a user is not interested in a complete summary of the entire stream of data but rather wants to observe the current state of the system based on the recent past. In these cases exponential statistics are used. Instead of weighting all values uniformly in the statistics computation, an exponential decay weight is applied to older values. The decay rate is configurable and provides a mechanism for balancing recent values with past values.
The Python RunStats_ module was designed for these cases by providing classes
for computing online summary statistics and online linear regression in a
single pass. Summary objects work on sequences which may be larger than memory
or disk space permit. They may also be efficiently combined together to create
aggregate summaries.
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Installing RunStats_ is simple with pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/>_::
$ pip install runstats
You can access documentation in the interpreter with Python's built-in help function:
.. code-block:: python
import runstats help(runstats) # doctest: +SKIP help(runstats.Statistics) # doctest: +SKIP help(runstats.Regression) # doctest: +SKIP help(runstats.ExponentialStatistics) # doctest: +SKIP
The Python RunStats_ module provides three types for computing running
statistics: Statistics, ExponentialStatistics and Regression.The Regression
object leverages Statistics internally for its calculations. Each can be
initialized without arguments:
.. code-block:: python
from runstats import Statistics, Regression, ExponentialStatistics stats = Statistics() regr = Regression() exp_stats = ExponentialStatistics()
Statistics objects support four methods for modification. Use push to add
values to the summary, clear to reset the summary, sum to combine Statistics
summaries and multiply to weight summary Statistics by a scalar.
.. code-block:: python
for num in range(10): ... stats.push(float(num)) stats.mean() 4.5 stats.maximum() 9.0 stats += stats stats.mean() 4.5 stats.variance() 8.68421052631579 len(stats) 20 stats *= 2 len(stats) 40 stats.clear() len(stats) 0 stats.minimum() nan
Use the Python built-in len for the number of pushed values. Unfortunately
the Python min and max built-ins may not be used for the minimum and
maximum as sequences are expected instead. Therefore, there are minimum and
maximum methods provided for that purpose:
.. code-block:: python
import random random.seed(0) for __ in range(1000): ... stats.push(random.random()) len(stats) 1000 min(stats) Traceback (most recent call last): ... TypeError: ... stats.minimum() 0.00024069652516689466 stats.maximum() 0.9996851255769114
Statistics summaries provide five measures of a series: mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis:
.. code-block:: python
stats = Statistics([1, 2, 5, 12, 5, 2, 1]) stats.mean() 4.0 stats.variance() 15.33333333333333 stats.stddev() 3.915780041490243 stats.skewness() 1.33122127314735 stats.kurtosis() 0.5496219281663506
All internal calculations use Python's float type.
Like Statistics, the Regression type supports some methods for modification:
push, clear and sum:
.. code-block:: python
regr.clear() len(regr) 0 for num in range(10): ... regr.push(num, num + 5) len(regr) 10 regr.slope() 1.0 more = Regression((num, num + 5) for num in range(10, 20)) total = regr + more len(total) 20 total.slope() 1.0 total.intercept() 5.0 total.correlation() 1.0
Regression summaries provide three measures of a series of pairs: slope, intercept and correlation. Note that, as a regression, the points need not exactly lie on a line:
.. code-block:: python
regr = Regression([(1.2, 1.9), (3, 5.1), (4.9, 8.1), (7, 11)]) regr.slope() 1.5668320150154176 regr.intercept() 0.21850113956294415 regr.correlation() 0.9983810791694997
Both constructors accept an optional iterable that is consumed and pushed into the summary. Note that you may pass a generator as an iterable and the generator will be entirely consumed.
The ExponentialStatistics are constructed by providing a decay rate, initial mean, and initial variance. The decay rate has default 0.9 and must be between 0 and 1. The initial mean and variance default to zero.
.. code-block:: python
exp_stats = ExponentialStatistics() exp_stats.decay 0.9 exp_stats.mean() 0.0 exp_stats.variance() 0.0
The decay rate is the weight by which the current statistics are discounted
by. Consequently, (1 - decay) is the weight of the new value. Like the Statistics class,
there are four methods for modification: push, clear, sum and
multiply.
.. code-block:: python
for num in range(10): ... exp_stats.push(num) exp_stats.mean() 3.486784400999999 exp_stats.variance() 11.593430921943071 exp_stats.stddev() 3.4049127627507683
The decay of the exponential statistics can also be changed. The value must be between 0 and 1.
.. code-block:: python
exp_stats.decay 0.9 exp_stats.decay = 0.5 exp_stats.decay 0.5 exp_stats.decay = 10 Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: decay must be between 0 and 1
The clear method allows to optionally set a new mean, new variance and new decay. If none are provided mean and variance reset to zero, while the decay is not changed.
.. code-block:: python
exp_stats.clear() exp_stats.decay 0.5 exp_stats.mean() 0.0 exp_stats.variance() 0.0
Combining ExponentialStatistics is done by adding them together. The mean and
variance are simply added to create a new object. To weight each
ExponentialStatistics, multiply them by a constant factor. If two
ExponentialStatistics are added then the leftmost decay is used for the new
object. The len method is not supported.
.. code-block:: python
alpha_stats = ExponentialStatistics(iterable=range(10)) beta_stats = ExponentialStatistics(decay=0.1) for num in range(10): ... beta_stats.push(num) exp_stats = beta_stats * 0.5 + alpha_stats * 0.5 exp_stats.decay 0.1 exp_stats.mean() 6.187836645
All internal calculations of the Statistics and Regression classes are based entirely on the C++ code by John Cook as posted in a couple of articles:
Computing Skewness and Kurtosis in One Pass_Computing Linear Regression in One Pass_.. _Computing Skewness and Kurtosis in One Pass: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/skewness_kurtosis/
.. _Computing Linear Regression in One Pass: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/running_regression/
The ExponentialStatistics implementation is based on:
The pure-Python version of RunStats_ is directly available if preferred.
.. code-block:: python
import runstats.core # Pure-Python runstats.core.Statistics <class 'runstats.core.Statistics'>
When importing from runstats the Cython-optimized version _core is
preferred and the core version is used as fallback. Micro-benchmarking
Statistics and Regression by calling push repeatedly shows the
Cython-optimized extension as 20-40 times faster than the pure-Python
extension.
.. _RunStats: http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/runstats/
RunStats Documentation_RunStats API Reference_RunStats at PyPI_RunStats at GitHub_RunStats Issue Tracker_.. _RunStats Documentation: http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/runstats/
.. _RunStats API Reference: http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/runstats/api.html
.. _RunStats at PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/runstats/
.. _RunStats at GitHub: https://github.com/grantjenks/python-runstats/
.. _RunStats Issue Tracker: https://github.com/grantjenks/python-runstats/issues/
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