Object-Oriented Programming with Java, part I – Exercise 67

This program calculates the variance from a series of numbers in an array list.

My Code

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Variance {

    // Copy here sum from exercise 63 
    public static int sum(ArrayList<Integer> list) {
        int tot = 0;
        for (int num : list) {
            tot = tot + num;
        }
        return tot;
    }

    // Copy here average from exercise 64 
    public static double average(ArrayList<Integer> list) {
        int tot = 0;
        int i = 0;
        for (int num : list) {
            tot = tot + num;
            i++;
        }
        return (double)tot / i;
    }

    public static double variance(ArrayList<Integer> list) {
        // write code here
        double var = 0;
        double avg = average(list);
        for (double num : list) {
            var = var + ((num - avg) * (num - avg));
        }
        var = var/(list.size() -1);
        return var;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        list.add(3);
        list.add(2);
        list.add(7);
        list.add(2);

        System.out.println("The variance is: " + variance(list));
    }

}

Model Code

import java.util.ArrayList;

 

public class Variance {

    // Copy here sum from exercise 63 

    public static int sum(ArrayList<Integer> list) {

        int sum = 0;

        for (int number : list) {

            sum = sum + number;

        }

        return sum;

    }

    

    // Copy here average from exercise 64 

    public static double average(ArrayList<Integer> list) {

        double sum = (double) sum(list);

        return sum / list.size();

    }

 

    public static double variance(ArrayList<Integer> list) {

        // write code here

        double aver = average(list);

        

        double var = 0;

        for (int number : list) {

            double difference = number - aver;

            double squareOfDifference = difference * difference;

            var = var + squareOfDifference;

        }

        var = var / (list.size() - 1);

 

        return var;

    }

    

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();

        list.add(3);

        list.add(2);

        list.add(7);

        list.add(2);

        

        System.out.println("The variance is: " + variance(list));

    }

 

}

Comments

Not that happy with this one. It works but isn’t as well done as the model solution and took way to long to do.