math/doc/statistics/bivariate_statistics.qbk

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Copyright 2018 Nick Thompson
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
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[section:bivariate_statistics Bivariate Statistics]
[heading Synopsis]
``
#include <boost/math/statistics/bivariate_statistics.hpp>
namespace boost{ namespace math{ namespace statistics {
template<class Container>
auto covariance(Container const & u, Container const & v);
template<class Container>
auto means_and_covariance(Container const & u, Container const & v);
template<class Container>
auto correlation_coefficient(Container const & u, Container const & v);
}}}
``
[heading Description]
This file provides functions for computing bivariate statistics.
[heading Covariance]
Computes the population covariance of two datasets:
std::vector<double> u{1,2,3,4,5};
std::vector<double> v{1,2,3,4,5};
double cov_uv = boost::math::statistics::covariance(u, v);
The implementation follows [@https://doi.org/10.1109/CLUSTR.2009.5289161 Bennet et al].
The data is not modified. Requires a random-access container.
Works with real-valued inputs and does not work with complex-valued inputs.
The algorithm used herein simultaneously generates the mean values of the input data /u/ and /v/.
For certain applications, it might be useful to get them in a single pass through the data.
As such, we provide `means_and_covariance`:
std::vector<double> u{1,2,3,4,5};
std::vector<double> v{1,2,3,4,5};
auto [mu_u, mu_v, cov_uv] = boost::math::statistics::means_and_covariance(u, v);
[heading Correlation Coefficient]
Computes the [@https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_correlation_coefficient Pearson correlation coefficient] of two datasets /u/ and /v/:
std::vector<double> u{1,2,3,4,5};
std::vector<double> v{1,2,3,4,5};
double rho_uv = boost::math::statistics::correlation_coefficient(u, v);
// rho_uv = 1.
The data must be random access and cannot be complex.
If one or both of the datasets is constant, the correlation coefficient is an indeterminant form (0/0) and definitions must be introduced to assign it a value.
We use the following: If both datasets are constant, then the correlation coefficient is 1.
If one dataset is constant, and the other is not, then the correlation coefficient is zero.
[heading References]
* Bennett, Janine, et al. ['Numerically stable, single-pass, parallel statistics algorithms.] Cluster Computing and Workshops, 2009. CLUSTER'09. IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2009.
[endsect]
[/section:bivariate_statistics Bivariate Statistics]