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### 50.2 Functions and Variables for data manipulation

Function: build_sample
`build_sample` (list)
`build_sample` (matrix) ¶

  Builds a sample from a table of absolute frequencies. The input table can be a matrix or a list of lists, all of them of equal size. The number of columns or the length of the lists must be greater than 1. The last element of each row or list is interpreted as the absolute frequency. The output is always a sample in matrix form.

  Examples:

  Univariate frequency table.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) sam1: build_sample([[6,1], [j,2], [2,1]]);
                             [ 6 ]
                             [   ]
                             [ j ]
      (%o2)                  [   ]
                             [ j ]
                             [   ]
                             [ 2 ]
      (%i3) mean(sam1);
                            2 j + 8
      (%o3)                [-------]
                               4
      (%i4) barsplot(sam1) $

  Multivariate frequency table.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) sam2: build_sample([[6,3,1], [5,6,2], [u,2,1],[6,8,2]]) ;
                                 [ 6  3 ]
                                 [      ]
                                 [ 5  6 ]
                                 [      ]
                                 [ 5  6 ]
      (%o2)                      [      ]
                                 [ u  2 ]
                                 [      ]
                                 [ 6  8 ]
                                 [      ]
                                 [ 6  8 ]
      (%i3) cov(sam2);
             [   2                 2                            ]
             [  u  + 158   (u + 28)     2 u + 174   11 (u + 28) ]
             [  -------- - ---------    --------- - ----------- ]
      (%o3)  [     6          36            6           12      ]
             [                                                  ]
             [ 2 u + 174   11 (u + 28)            21            ]
             [ --------- - -----------            --            ]
             [     6           12                 4             ]
      (%i4) barsplot(sam2, grouping=stacked) $

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Function: continuous_freq
`continuous_freq` (data)
`continuous_freq` (data, m) ¶

  Divides the range of data into intervals, and counts how many values fall into each one.

  A value x falls into an interval with left and right endpoints a and b if and only if `x > a` and `x <= b`, except for the first (least or leftmost) interval, for which `x >= a` and `x <= b`. That is, an interval excludes its left endpoint and includes its right endpoint, except for the first interval, which includes both the left and right endpoints.

  data must be a list of numbers, or 1-dimensional array (as created by `make_array`).

  m is optional, and equals either the number of classes (10 by default), or a list of two elements (the least and greatest values to be counted), or a list of three elements (the least and greatest values to be counted, and the number of classes), or a set containing the endpoints of the class intervals.

  It is assumed that class intervals are contiguous. That is, the right endpoint of one interval is equal to the left endpoint of the next.

  `continuous_freq` returns a list of two lists. The first list comprises all the endpoints of the class intervals, concatenated into a single list. The second list contains the class counts for the intervals corresponding to elements of the first list.

  If sample values are all equal, this function returns exactly one class of width 2.

  Examples:

  Optional argument indicates the number of classes we want. The first list in the output contains the interval limits, and the second the corresponding counts: there are 16 digits inside the interval `[0, 1.8]`, 24 digits in `(1.8, 3.6]`, and so on.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
      (%i3) continuous_freq (s1, 5);
      (%o3) [[0, 1.8, 3.6, 5.4, 7.2, 9.0], [16, 24, 18, 17, 25]]

  Optional argument indicates we want 7 classes with limits -2 and 12:

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
      (%i3) continuous_freq (s1, [-2,12,7]);
      (%o3) [[- 2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12], [8, 20, 22, 17, 20, 13, 0]]

  Optional argument indicates we want the default number of classes with limits -2 and 12:

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
      (%i3) continuous_freq (s1, [-2,12]);
                      3  4  11  18     32  39  46  53
      (%o3)  [[- 2, - -, -, --, --, 5, --, --, --, --, 12],
                      5  5  5   5      5   5   5   5
                     [0, 8, 20, 12, 18, 9, 8, 25, 0, 0]]

  The first argument may be an array.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
      (%i3) a1 : make_array (fixnum, length (s1)) $
      (%i4) fillarray (a1, s1);
      (%o4) {Lisp Array:
      #(3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 \
      5 0 2 8 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0 9 7 4 9 4 4 5 9
        2 3 0 7 8 1 6 4 0 6 2 8 6 2 0 8 9 9 8 6 2 8 0 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 \
      1 1 7 0 6 7)}
      (%i5) continuous_freq (a1);
                 9   9  27  18  9  27  63  36  81
      (%o5) [[0, --, -, --, --, -, --, --, --, --, 9],
                 10  5  10  5   2  5   10  5   10
                                   [8, 8, 12, 12, 10, 8, 9, 8, 12, 13]]

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Function: discrete_freq (data) ¶

  Counts absolute frequencies in discrete samples, both numeric and categorical. Its unique argument is a list, or 1-dimensional array (as created by `make_array`).

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$

      (%i3) discrete_freq (s1);
      (%o3) [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
                                   [8, 8, 12, 12, 10, 8, 9, 8, 12, 13]]

  The first list gives the sample values and the second their absolute frequencies. Commands `? col` and `? transpose` should help you to understand the last input.

  The argument may be an array.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
      (%i3) a1 : make_array (fixnum, length (s1)) $
      (%i4) fillarray (a1, s1);
      (%o4) {Lisp Array:
      #(3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 \
      5 0 2 8 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0 9 7 4 9 4 4 5 9
        2 3 0 7 8 1 6 4 0 6 2 8 6 2 0 8 9 9 8 6 2 8 0 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 \
      1 1 7 0 6 7)}
      (%i5) discrete_freq (a1);
      (%o5) [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
                                   [8, 8, 12, 12, 10, 8, 9, 8, 12, 13]]

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Function: standardize
`standardize` (list)
`standardize` (matrix) ¶

  Subtracts to each element of the list the sample mean and divides the result by the standard deviation. When the input is a matrix, `standardize` subtracts to each row the multivariate mean, and then divides each component by the corresponding standard deviation.

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Function: subsample
`subsample` (data_matrix, predicate_function)
`subsample` (data_matrix, predicate_function, col_num1, col_num2, ...) ¶

  This is a sort of variant of the Maxima `submatrix` function. The first argument is the data matrix, the second is a predicate function and optional additional arguments are the numbers of the columns to be taken. Its behaviour is better understood with examples.

  These are multivariate records in which the wind speed in the first meteorological station were greater than 18. See that in the lambda expression the i-th component is referred to as `v[i]`.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$

      (%i3) subsample (s2, lambda([v], v[1] > 18));
                    [ 19.38  15.37  15.12  23.09  25.25 ]
                    [                                   ]
                    [ 18.29  18.66  19.08  26.08  27.63 ]
      (%o3)         [                                   ]
                    [ 20.25  21.46  19.95  27.71  23.38 ]
                    [                                   ]
                    [ 18.79  18.96  14.46  26.38  21.84 ]

  In the following example, we request only the first, second and fifth components of those records with wind speeds greater or equal than 16 in station number 1 and less than 25 knots in station number 4. The sample contains only data from stations 1, 2 and 5. In this case, the predicate function is defined as an ordinary Maxima function.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
      (%i3) g(x):= x[1] >= 16 and x[4] < 25$

      (%i4) subsample (s2, g, 1, 2, 5);
                           [ 19.38  15.37  25.25 ]
                           [                     ]
                           [ 17.33  14.67  19.58 ]
      (%o4)                [                     ]
                           [ 16.92  13.21  21.21 ]
                           [                     ]
                           [ 17.25  18.46  23.87 ]

  Here is an example with the categorical variables of `biomed.data`. We want the records corresponding to those patients in group `B` who are older than 38 years.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s3 : read_matrix (file_search ("biomed.data"))$
      (%i3) h(u):= u[1] = B and u[2] > 38 $

      (%i4) subsample (s3, h);
                      [ B  39  28.0  102.3  17.1  146 ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  21.0  92.4   10.3  197 ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  23.0  111.5  10.0  133 ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  26.0  92.6   12.3  196 ]
      (%o4)           [                               ]
                      [ B  39  25.0  98.7   10.0  174 ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  21.0  93.2   5.9   181 ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  18.0  95.0   11.3  66  ]
                      [                               ]
                      [ B  39  39.0  88.5   7.6   168 ]

  Probably, the statistical analysis will involve only the blood measures,

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s3 : read_matrix (file_search ("biomed.data"))$

      (%i3) subsample (s3, lambda([v], v[1] = B and v[2] > 38),
                       3, 4, 5, 6);
                         [ 28.0  102.3  17.1  146 ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 21.0  92.4   10.3  197 ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 23.0  111.5  10.0  133 ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 26.0  92.6   12.3  196 ]
      (%o3)              [                        ]
                         [ 25.0  98.7   10.0  174 ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 21.0  93.2   5.9   181 ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 18.0  95.0   11.3  66  ]
                         [                        ]
                         [ 39.0  88.5   7.6   168 ]

  This is the multivariate mean of `s3`,

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s3 : read_matrix (file_search ("biomed.data"))$

      (%i3) mean (s3);
             65 B + 35 A  317          6 NA + 8144.999999999999
      (%o3) [-----------, ---, 87.178, ------------------------,
                 100      10                     100
                                                          3 NA + 19587
                                                  18.123, ------------]
                                                              100

  Here, the first component is meaningless, since `A` and `B` are categorical, the second component is the mean age of individuals in rational form, and the fourth and last values exhibit some strange behaviour. This is because symbol `NA` is used here to indicate non available data, and the two means are nonsense. A possible solution would be to take out from the matrix those rows with `NA` symbols, although this deserves some loss of information.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) s3 : read_matrix (file_search ("biomed.data"))$
      (%i3) g(v):= v[4] # NA and v[6] # NA $

      (%i4) mean (subsample (s3, g, 3, 4, 5, 6));
      (%o4) [79.4923076923077, 86.2032967032967, 16.93186813186813,
                                                                  2514
                                                                  ----]
                                                                   13

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Function: transform_sample (matrix, varlist, exprlist) ¶

  Transforms the sample matrix, where each column is called according to varlist, following expressions in exprlist.

  Examples:

  The second argument assigns names to the three columns. With these names, a list of expressions define the transformation of the sample.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) data: matrix([3,2,7],[3,7,2],[8,2,4],[5,2,4]) $

      (%i3) transform_sample(data, [a,b,c], [c, a*b, log(a)]);
                                     [ 7  6   log(3) ]
                                     [               ]
                                     [ 2  21  log(3) ]
      (%o3)                          [               ]
                                     [ 4  16  log(8) ]
                                     [               ]
                                     [ 4  10  log(5) ]

  Add a constant column and remove the third variable.

      (%i1) load ("descriptive")$
      (%i2) data: matrix([3,2,7],[3,7,2],[8,2,4],[5,2,4]) $
      (%i3) transform_sample(data, [a,b,c], [makelist(1,k,length(data)),a,b]);

                                        [ 1  3  2 ]
                                        [         ]
                                        [ 1  3  7 ]
      (%o3)                             [         ]
                                        [ 1  8  2 ]
                                        [         ]
                                        [ 1  5  2 ]

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