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@Evian-Zhang Evian-Zhang commented Aug 22, 2026

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Follow up #394 .

@YeungOnion There is literally no scientific-code change, just some Rust type magics.

Now src/statistics/online.rs has been very clean and clear, and you can add whatever statistics you want following a similar pattern (like all statistics in src/statistics/iter_statistics.rs). I didn't add those because I'm not very familiar with the statistics knowledge, so I cannot write unit tests for those APIs.

Another question is that should the trait be named OnlineMoment? I don't know if it is appropriate, but anyway it represents a type that can be calculated from the fields of Accumulate.

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  • New Features

    • Added composable online statistics for mean, sample and population variance, standard deviation, and skewness.
    • Multiple statistical measures can now be calculated together in a single accumulation process.
    • Added support for merging partial statistical results for incremental and distributed calculations.
  • Improvements

    • Improved numerical stability when accumulating observations.
    • Preserved consistent results across online and iterator-based calculations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved NaN results for empty inputs and invalid statistical observations.

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The PR replaces the generic moment accumulator with composable online statistic traits and wrappers. Accumulate now stores shared moments, supports merging and observation updates, and powers iterator statistics and tuple-based result extraction.

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Online statistics accumulation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared accumulator state
src/statistics/accumulate.rs
Accumulate<MS> stores observation count, offset, and up to three central moments. It supports initialization, Welford/Pébay updates, pairwise merging, and conversion through get.
Statistic traits and wrappers
src/statistics/online.rs
OnlineMoment and OnlineMoments support individual and tuple statistics. Public wrappers provide mean, variance, standard deviation, and skewness results from shared accumulator state.
Iterator integration and validation
src/statistics/iter_statistics.rs, src/statistics/online.rs
Iterator statistics use dedicated accumulator types. Tests cover tuple composition, statistical results, NaN handling, accumulation order, and merged folds.

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The change may return incorrect means for data with a non-zero starting value if the stored offset is not restored when exposing the result. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but this bounded correctness risk should be confirmed and covered before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IteratorStatistics
  participant Accumulate
  participant OnlineMoments
  IteratorStatistics->>Accumulate: push observations
  Accumulate->>Accumulate: update or merge moments
  IteratorStatistics->>OnlineMoments: get requested statistics
  OnlineMoments-->>IteratorStatistics: return statistical results
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src/statistics/online.rs (1)

71-71: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add derives to the public statistic wrappers.

OnlineMean, OnlineVariance, OnlineStdDev, OnlinePopulationVariance, OnlinePopulationStdDev, and OnlineSkewness are public types with no trait implementations. Callers cannot print, copy, or compare them without unwrapping the inner Option<f64> first.

Add #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)] to each wrapper. All six hold a single Option<f64>, so the derives carry no extra bounds.

Also applies to: 87-87, 103-103, 116-116, 132-132, 145-145

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In `@src/statistics/online.rs` at line 71, Add #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy,
PartialEq)] to each public wrapper: OnlineMean, OnlineVariance, OnlineStdDev,
OnlinePopulationVariance, OnlinePopulationStdDev, and OnlineSkewness. Keep their
existing tuple-field definitions unchanged.
src/statistics/accumulate.rs (3)

27-38: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider implementing Debug, Clone, and Copy for Accumulate.

merge takes self by value, so a caller cannot reuse an accumulator without a copy. Accumulate is public and currently has no trait implementations.

Use manual implementations instead of derive. A derive adds an MS: Clone bound, and the statistic wrappers such as OnlineMean are not Clone, so the bound would make the implementation unusable for the common tuple types.

♻️ Manual implementations that avoid the `MS` bound
impl<MS: OnlineMoments> Clone for Accumulate<MS> {
    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
        *self
    }
}

impl<MS: OnlineMoments> Copy for Accumulate<MS> {}

impl<MS: OnlineMoments> core::fmt::Debug for Accumulate<MS> {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("Accumulate")
            .field("count", &self.count)
            .field("offset", &self.offset)
            .field("m", &self.m)
            .finish()
    }
}
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In `@src/statistics/accumulate.rs` around lines 27 - 38, Implement manual Clone,
Copy, and Debug for Accumulate<MS> without adding an MS trait bound. Clone
should return the copied accumulator, Copy should cover all OnlineMoments types,
and Debug should expose count, offset, and m while omitting the PhantomData
field.

6-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the stale description of tuple behavior.

The text says tuples "fan each observation into each accumulator". The new design keeps one shared Accumulate state and derives every statistic from the same moments. No per-statistic accumulator exists. Reword to describe the shared single-pass state.

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In `@src/statistics/accumulate.rs` around lines 6 - 8, Update the documentation
comment describing tuple arity near the Accumulate implementation to remove the
claim that observations fan into separate accumulators. Describe instead that
tuples share one Accumulate state and derive multiple statistics from the same
moments in a single pass.

86-108: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Relax the strict error comparison in this doc test.

Line 107 asserts merged_err < chained_err. Both terms are rounding-error magnitudes. If both paths round to the same double, the two errors are equal and the doc test fails. The claim under test is that merging is not worse conditioned, so a non-strict comparison is enough. Line 108 already pins the accuracy.

The fold also runs 524288 pushes. Consider reducing blocks to keep doc-test runtime low.

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-    /// assert!(merged_err < chained_err);
+    /// assert!(merged_err <= chained_err);
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In `@src/statistics/accumulate.rs` around lines 86 - 108, Update the documentation
test around the chained and merged variance calculations to use a non-strict
comparison for merged_err versus chained_err, while preserving the existing
accuracy assertion. Also reduce the blocks value if possible to lower the fold’s
runtime without weakening the test’s coverage.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/statistics/accumulate.rs`:
- Around line 162-186: Implement the documented shift in Accumulator::push by
setting offset from the first observation and updating moments using x minus
self.offset; make offset visible to the statistics module and update
OnlineMean::from_acc to reconstruct the original mean as acc.offset plus
acc.m[0]. Preserve the existing central-moment calculations and merge behavior,
since orders two and three are shift invariant.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/statistics/accumulate.rs`:
- Around line 27-38: Implement manual Clone, Copy, and Debug for Accumulate<MS>
without adding an MS trait bound. Clone should return the copied accumulator,
Copy should cover all OnlineMoments types, and Debug should expose count,
offset, and m while omitting the PhantomData field.
- Around line 6-8: Update the documentation comment describing tuple arity near
the Accumulate implementation to remove the claim that observations fan into
separate accumulators. Describe instead that tuples share one Accumulate state
and derive multiple statistics from the same moments in a single pass.
- Around line 86-108: Update the documentation test around the chained and
merged variance calculations to use a non-strict comparison for merged_err
versus chained_err, while preserving the existing accuracy assertion. Also
reduce the blocks value if possible to lower the fold’s runtime without
weakening the test’s coverage.

In `@src/statistics/online.rs`:
- Line 71: Add #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)] to each public wrapper:
OnlineMean, OnlineVariance, OnlineStdDev, OnlinePopulationVariance,
OnlinePopulationStdDev, and OnlineSkewness. Keep their existing tuple-field
definitions unchanged.
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Comment thread src/statistics/accumulate.rs
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I've got two questions. One on extensibility and another on preserving the merge semantic of results from multiple streams.

extensibility

I think I'm not grasping how to extend this in the same way for other reducer functions. Would you be able to write one that also does min? I think the first pass design had some motivation for accumulate to be behavior since it was themed after reductor crate mentioned previously.

Note: the names need not be fixed, could just have online::Mean and online::Min be struct. Open to change on this since it's only been one release.

let (OnlineMean(mean), OnlineMin(min)) = ...

merge semantic

How does this interact with the merge functionality? Is it right that this would allow,

let (OnlineMean(mean),) = acc1.merge(acc2).get();

Assuming acc1 and acc2 both have mean or is it that they must be the same type?

nitpicking

There is from_acc trait method for OnlineMoment that shouldn't usually be called, I think we can either let them call it directly and make it From or maybe make this trait pub(super) so it's available for the whole statistics module but not the lib.

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