New in 6.0: Statistics

Version 6.0 introduced integrated highly efficient support for a wide range of statistical functions and operations, both on explicit data and on symbolic representations of statistical distributions.

New Location Measures

Mean (modified)  ▪  Commonest  ▪  RootMeanSquare  ▪  TrimmedMean  ▪  HarmonicMean  ▪  GeometricMean

New Dispersion Measures

Variance (modified)  ▪  StandardDeviation (modified)  ▪  MeanDeviation  ▪  MedianDeviation  ▪  Quartiles  ▪  QuartileDeviation  ▪  InterquartileRange

New Shape Measures

Skewness  ▪  Kurtosis  ▪  QuartileSkewness  ▪  CentralMoment

New Multivariate Measures

Covariance  ▪  Correlation

New Continuous Distributions

NormalDistribution  ▪  ChiSquareDistribution  ▪  StudentTDistribution  ▪  LogNormalDistribution  ▪  BetaDistribution  ▪  ExtremeValueDistribution  ▪  ...

New Discrete Distributions

PoissonDistribution  ▪  BinomialDistribution  ▪  HypergeometricDistribution  ▪  ...

New Symbolic Features of Distributions

CDF  ▪  PDF  ▪  InverseCDF  ▪  CharacteristicFunction  ▪  Quantile

New Random-Generation Functions

RandomReal  ▪  RandomInteger  ▪  RandomChoice  ▪  RandomSample

New Data-Smoothing Functions

MovingAverage  ▪  MovingMedian  ▪  ExponentialMovingAverage

New Data-Analysis Functions

BinCounts count the number of elements that lie in bins

BinLists  ▪  Tally  ▪  Commonest

FindClusters find clusters in numerical, discrete, and string data

Nearest find nearest neighbors in any space of data

NearestFunction  ▪  DistanceFunction

New Distance & Similarity Measures »

EuclideanDistance  ▪  ManhattanDistance  ▪  EditDistance  ▪  JaccardDissimilarity  ▪  ...