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6.1 Basics

Let’s look at some of the basic statistical operations available, in an interactive session:

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scheme@(guile-user)> ;; load modules, initialize mu
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (mu) (mu stats))
scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:initialize)
scheme@(guile-user)>
scheme@(guile-user)> ;; count the number of messages with 'hello' in their subject
scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:count "subject:hello")
$1 = 162
scheme@(guile-user)> ;; average the size of messages with hello in their subject
scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:average mu:size "subject:hello")
$2 = 34597733/81
scheme@(guile-user)> (exact->inexact $2)
$3 = 427132.506172839
scheme@(guile-user)> ;; calculate the correlation between message size and
scheme@(guile-user)> ;; subject length
scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:correl mu:size (lambda (msg)
                        (string-length (mu:subject msg))) "subject:hello")
$5 = -0.10804368622292
scheme@(guile-user)>