datasets

Managing Data

Managing sample/population data

• Class DataSet

  • contains a single sample or population data

• Class DataSets

  • base class for managing multiple data sets

final class boring_math.probability_distributions.datasets.DataSet

Class containing a finite set of data

Data can be a sample or the population.

• all data internally stored as floats (even integer data)

• data sorted smallest to largest

• methods provided to

  • read in data from a file

  • computing data statistics

  • add or remove data

classmethod read_data_from_file(file_name: str, sample: bool = False) → Self

Create data set from data file

Read in data from a text file, calculate some statistics, and return a DataSet object. Fail fast if there is a problem with the data file.

The text file should

• have one number (float) per line

  • if sample is true, calculate sample stats

  • if sample is false (default), calculate population stats

• blank lines and lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored

Parameters:

• file_name – Path to file from which to read in data.

• sample – If true treat data as a sample.

Returns:

A DataSet object containing the data from the file.

__init__(*data: int | float, sample: bool = False) → None

class boring_math.probability_distributions.datasets.DataSets

Class to manage data sets.

Base class for managing DataSet objects.

• data sets can be samples or populations

• child class should provide methods to

  • add or remove data sets

  • plot data sets

• how data sets relate to each other is up to the child class

__init__() → None