$standev

By Olliegod on Jun 13, 2007

This alias returns the standard deviation for a set of numbers.

Useage: $standev(1,2,3,4,etc.)

alias standev {
  var %total = $numtok($1-,32), %average = $calc(($replace($1-,$chr(32),$chr(43))) / %total), %x = 1, %numbtotal = 0
  while (%x <= %total) {
    if ($gettok($1-,%x,32) !isnum) { echo 2 -a * Invalid parameters: $chr(36) $+ standev | halt }
    var %numb = $calc(($gettok($1-,%x,32) - %average) ^ 2)
    inc %numbtotal %numb
    inc %x
  }
  return $round($sqrt($calc(%numbtotal / %total)),2)
}

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guest598594 - Sep 24, 2007

this could of been really helpful if i knew about it like a week ago when i needed to do stdev by hand :D

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Olliegod - Jun 14, 2007

What xDaeMoN said.

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xDaeMoN - Jun 13, 2007

That\'s because, the commas will be replaced by spaces inside the alias. Put an \'echo -a $1-\' on the 2nd line of the alias to see what I mean.

Why use commas? When you separate anything with a comma in the alias like the sample usage, mIRC treats each separated token as a parameter meaning the first token will be $1, 2nd will be $2 and so on, kinda like what /tokenize does.

Sample:

If you still have the echo there, leave it.
then do

//echo -a $standev(1,2,3,4,5)

and it should give you the same numbers separated by a space.

then now change $1- to $1 in echo inside the alias
now do the same echo again in #2 & it would only give you \"1\"
Now use the same echo BUT change the comma to a space & it should give you all the numbers.

See the difference?

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RusselB - Jun 13, 2007

In your usage, you show using commas to separate the parameters, yet in your code, you check for space separation.

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