Support for compacting binary data

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/stats.py b/stats.py
index f6c4401..cede673 100644
--- a/stats.py
+++ b/stats.py
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ def iqr(vect):
 def cutoff_max(vect, percentile=99):
     return s.scoreatpercentile(vect, percentile)
 
+def iqr_cutoff(vect, extend):
+    (spread, low, high) = iqr(vect)
+    min_val = low  - extend * spread
+    max_val = high + extend * spread
+    return min_val, max_val
+
 def iqr_is_not_outlier(table, col=1, extend=1.5):
     "create a filter function that flags outliers"
     (spread, low, high) = iqr(table[:,col])