z-Scores(standard deviation and mean) in PHP
to calculate the mean you can do:
$mean = array_sum($array)/count($array)
standard deviation is like so:
// Function to calculate square of value - mean
function sd_square($x, $mean) { return pow($x - $mean,2); }
// Function to calculate standard deviation (uses sd_square)
function sd($array) {
// square root of sum of squares devided by N-1
return sqrt(array_sum(array_map("sd_square", $array, array_fill(0,count($array), (array_sum($array) / count($array)) ) ) ) / (count($array)-1) );
}
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How about using the built in statistics package like stats_standard_deviation and stats_harmonic_mean. I can't find a function for standard means, but if you know anything about statistics, I'm sure you can figure something out using the built-in functions.
function standard_deviation($aValues)
{
$fMean = array_sum($aValues) / count($aValues);
//print_r($fMean);
$fVariance = 0.0;
foreach ($aValues as $i)
{
$fVariance += pow($i - $fMean, 2);
}
$size = count($aValues) - 1;
return (float) sqrt($fVariance)/sqrt($size);
}