Calculating mean for a set of columns in jsl

zhouye0

I have a set of column names in a list called list_1, now I want to calculate the mean for each column, but the thing is I do not want to include all the rows in the column when calculating the mean, i have another pre-defined variable that selects specific rows. How do I calculate the mean of the column by selecting the specified rows instead of stepping down through all the rows?

for example i want the mean to be calculated based on rows 1,3,4,5,9 on a specific column

dt << current data table;

for (p=1,p<=nitems(list_1), p++,

  col = list_1

;

mean = col mean(dt :col );

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pmroz

The col functions appear to ignore the excluded row state.  This works however:

//for example i want the mean to be calculated based on rows 1,3,4,5,9 on a specific column

dt = New Table( "testmean", Add Rows( 10 ),

      New Column( "C1", Numeric, Continuous, Format( "Best", 12 ),

            Set Values( [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] ) ),

      New Column( "C2", Numeric, Continuous, Format( "Best", 12 ),

            Set Values( [5, 4, 3, 6, 7, 2, 3, 6, 5, 4] ) )

);

sel_rows = [1,3,4,5,9];

list_1 = {"C1", "C2"};

for (p=1, p <= nitems(list_1), p++,

      one_col = list_1[p];

      mean = mean(column(dt, one_col )[sel_rows]);

      show(p, mean);

);