How about this (native JS will not break into older browsers):
function arrayMean(ary) {
var index = {}, i, label, value, result = [[],[]];
for (i = 0; i < ary[0].length; i++) {
label = ary[0][i];
value = ary[1][i];
if (!(label in index)) {
index[label] = {sum: 0, occur: 0};
}
index[label].sum += value;
index[label].occur++;
}
for (i in index) {
if (index.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
result[0].push(parseInt(i, 10));
result[1].push(index[i].occur > 0 ? index[i].sum / index[i].occur : 0);
}
}
return result;
}
FWIW, if you want fantasy, I created several other ways to do this. They depend on external libraries and are probably an order of magnitude slower than their own solution. But they are nicer to watch.
It might look like this: underscore.js :
function arrayMeanUnderscore(ary) {
return _.chain(ary[0])
.zip(ary[1])
.groupBy(function (item) { return item[0]; })
.reduce(function(memo, items) {
var values = _.pluck(items, 1),
toSum = function (a, b) { return a + b; };
memo[0].push(items[0][0]);
memo[1].push(_(values).reduce(toSum) / values.length);
return memo;
}, [[], []])
.value();
}
arrayMeanUnderscore([[3,4,5,3,4,5,2], [12,14,16,11,12,10,20]]);
, linq.js ( v2.2):
function arrayMeanLinq(ary) {
return Enumerable.From(ary[0])
.Zip(ary[1], "[$, $$]")
.GroupBy("$[0]")
.Aggregate([[],[]], function (result, item) {
result[0].push(item.Key());
result[1].push(item.Average("$[1]"));
return result;
});
}
// --------------------------------------------
arrayMeanLinq([[3,4,5,3,4,5,2], [12,14,16,11,12,10,20]]);
// -> [[3,4,5,2], [11.5,13,13,20]]
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