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# Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.
import math
import unittest
import math_utils
class MathUtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
"""Tests for mathematical utility functions."""
def testTruncatedMean_EmptyList(self):
# TruncatedMean raises an error when passed an empty list.
self.assertRaises(TypeError, math_utils.TruncatedMean, [], 0)
def testTruncatedMean_TruncateTooMuch(self):
# An exception is raised if 50% or more is truncated from both sides.
self.assertRaises(TypeError, math_utils.TruncatedMean, [1, 2, 3], 1.0)
self.assertRaises(
ZeroDivisionError, math_utils.TruncatedMean, [1, 2, 3], 0.5)
def testTruncatedMean_AlwaysKeepsAtLeastTwoValues(self):
# If the length of the input is 1 or 2, nothing is truncated and
# the average is returned.
self.assertEqual(5.0, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0], 0.0))
self.assertEqual(5.0, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0], 0.25))
self.assertEqual(5.0, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0], 0.5))
self.assertEqual(5.5, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0, 6.0], 0.0))
self.assertEqual(5.5, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0, 6.0], 0.25))
self.assertEqual(5.5, math_utils.TruncatedMean([5.0, 6.0], 0.5))
def testTruncatedMean_Interquartile_NumValuesDivisibleByFour(self):
self.assertEqual(5.0, math_utils.TruncatedMean([1, 4, 6, 100], 0.25))
self.assertEqual(
6.5, math_utils.TruncatedMean([1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 40, 50], 0.25))
def testTruncatedMean_Weighting(self):
# In the list [0, 1, 4, 5, 20, 100], when 25% of the list at the start
# and end are discarded, the part that's left is [1, 4, 5, 20], but
# first and last values are weighted so that they only count for half
# as much. So the truncated mean is (1/2 + 4 + 5 + 20/2) / 5.0.
self.assertEqual(6.5, (0.5 + 4 + 5 + 10) / 3.0)
self.assertEqual(6.5, math_utils.TruncatedMean([0, 1, 4, 5, 20, 100], 0.25))
def testMean_OneValue(self):
self.assertEqual(3.0, math_utils.Mean([3]))
def testMean_ShortList(self):
self.assertEqual(0.5, math_utils.Mean([-3, 0, 1, 4]))
def testMean_CompareAlternateImplementation(self):
"""Tests Mean by comparing against an alternate implementation."""
def AlternateMean(values):
return sum(values) / float(len(values))
test_value_lists = [
[1],
[5, 6.5, 1.2, 3],
[-3, 0, 1, 4],
[-3, -1, 0.12, 0.752, 3.33, 8, 16, 32, 439],
]
for value_list in test_value_lists:
self.assertEqual(AlternateMean(value_list), math_utils.Mean(value_list))
def testRelativeChange_NonZero(self):
# The change is relative to the first value, regardless of which is bigger.
self.assertEqual(0.5, math_utils.RelativeChange(1.0, 1.5))
self.assertEqual(0.5, math_utils.RelativeChange(2.0, 1.0))
def testRelativeChange_FromZero(self):
# If the first number is zero, then the result is not a number.
self.assertEqual(0, math_utils.RelativeChange(0, 0))
self.assertTrue(math.isnan(math_utils.RelativeChange(0, 1)))
self.assertTrue(math.isnan(math_utils.RelativeChange(0, -1)))
def testRelativeChange_Negative(self):
# Note that the return value of RelativeChange is always positive.
self.assertEqual(3.0, math_utils.RelativeChange(-1, 2))
self.assertEqual(3.0, math_utils.RelativeChange(1, -2))
self.assertEqual(1.0, math_utils.RelativeChange(-1, -2))
def testVariance_EmptyList(self):
self.assertRaises(TypeError, math_utils.Variance, [])
def testVariance_OneValue(self):
self.assertEqual(0, math_utils.Variance([0]))
self.assertEqual(0, math_utils.Variance([4.3]))
def testVariance_ShortList(self):
# Population variance is the average of squared deviations from the mean.
# The deviations from the mean in this example are [3.5, 0.5, -0.5, -3.5],
# and the squared deviations are [12.25, 0.25, 0.25, 12.25].
# With sample variance, however, 1 is subtracted from the sample size.
# So the sample variance is sum([12.25, 0.25, 0.25, 12.25]) / 3.0.
self.assertAlmostEqual(8.333333334, sum([12.25, 0.25, 0.25, 12.25]) / 3.0)
self.assertAlmostEqual(8.333333334, math_utils.Variance([-3, 0, 1, 4]))
def testStandardDeviation(self):
# Standard deviation is the square root of variance.
self.assertRaises(TypeError, math_utils.StandardDeviation, [])
self.assertEqual(0.0, math_utils.StandardDeviation([4.3]))
self.assertAlmostEqual(2.88675135, math.sqrt(8.33333333333333))
self.assertAlmostEqual(2.88675135,
math_utils.StandardDeviation([-3, 0, 1, 4]))
def testStandardError(self):
# Standard error is std. dev. divided by square root of sample size.
self.assertEqual(0.0, math_utils.StandardError([]))
self.assertEqual(0.0, math_utils.StandardError([4.3]))
self.assertAlmostEqual(1.44337567, 2.88675135 / math.sqrt(4))
self.assertAlmostEqual(1.44337567, math_utils.StandardError([-3, 0, 1, 4]))
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()