Bug #41863 for Statistics-Descriptive: median() in Statistics::Descriptive Perl module

Mon Dec 22 02:59:27 2008 P.Caffin [...] curtin.edu.au - Ticket created

Subject:	median() in Statistics::Descriptive Perl module
Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:57:57 +0900
To:	<bug-Statistics-Descriptive [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Peter Caffin" <P.Caffin [...] curtin.edu.au>

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> I'm using your Statistics::Descriptive Perl module but running into > problems trying to retrieve the median for my data. > > The code that's causing the error: > > # Output stats > my $mean = $stat->mean(); > my $mdn = $stat->median(); > my $max = $stat->max(); > > The error: Can't access `median' field in class > Statistics::Descriptive::Sparse > > Commenting out the median line, no errors appear and I get appropriate > stats for max and mean. > > Perl is v5.8.3 built for i586-linux-thread-multi. > Statistics::Descriptive is current as refreshed from CPAN today > (v2.6). >

Wed Apr 22 16:08:17 2009 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Hi Mr. Caffin! This is not a bug. See below. On Mon Dec 22 02:59:27 2008, P.Caffin@curtin.edu.au wrote: Show quoted text

> > I'm using your Statistics::Descriptive Perl module but running into > > problems trying to retrieve the median for my data. > > > > The code that's causing the error: > > > > # Output stats > > my $mean = $stat->mean(); > > my $mdn = $stat->median(); > > my $max = $stat->max(); > > > > The error: Can't access `median' field in class > > Statistics::Descriptive::Sparse > >

Your problem is that you were using Statistics::Descriptive::Sparse (which has no ->median() support) instead of S::D::Full. If you use S::D::Full instead, you'll get ->median() (while retaining full compatibility with S::D::Sparse). Show quoted text

> > Commenting out the median line, no errors appear and I get appropriate > > stats for max and mean. > > > > Perl is v5.8.3 built for i586-linux-thread-multi. > > Statistics::Descriptive is current as refreshed from CPAN today > > (v2.6). > >

Regards, -- Shlomi Fish

Wed Apr 22 16:08:17 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun May 03 04:51:01 2009 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Rejecting because it's not a bug. See my comment above. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish

Sun May 03 04:51:04 2009 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'