仅使用Python标准库(内存高效)

只提供标准库deque的另一个版本。令我惊讶的是，大多数答案都使用pandas或numpy。

def moving_average(iterable, n=3):
    d = deque(maxlen=n)
    for i in iterable:
        d.append(i)
        if len(d) == n:
            yield sum(d)/n

r = moving_average([40, 30, 50, 46, 39, 44])
assert list(r) == [40.0, 42.0, 45.0, 43.0]

实际上，我在python文档中找到了另一个实现

def moving_average(iterable, n=3):
    # moving_average([40, 30, 50, 46, 39, 44]) --> 40.0 42.0 45.0 43.0
    # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average
    it = iter(iterable)
    d = deque(itertools.islice(it, n-1))
    d.appendleft(0)
    s = sum(d)
    for elem in it:
        s += elem - d.popleft()
        d.append(elem)
        yield s / n

然而，在我看来，实现似乎比它应该的要复杂一些。但它肯定在标准python文档中是有原因的，有人能评论一下我的实现和标准文档吗?

一个新的卷积配方被合并到Python 3.10中。

鉴于

import collections, operator

from itertools import chain, repeat


size = 3 + 1
kernel = [1/size] * size                                              

Code

def convolve(signal, kernel):
    # See:  https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-convolution/
    # convolve(data, [0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25]) --> Moving average (blur)
    # convolve(data, [1, -1]) --> 1st finite difference (1st derivative)
    # convolve(data, [1, -2, 1]) --> 2nd finite difference (2nd derivative)
    kernel = list(reversed(kernel))
    n = len(kernel)
    window = collections.deque([0] * n, maxlen=n)
    for x in chain(signal, repeat(0, n-1)):
        window.append(x)
        yield sum(map(operator.mul, kernel, window))

Demo

list(convolve(range(1, 6), kernel))
# [0.25, 0.75, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 3.0, 2.25, 1.25]

细节

卷积是一种可以应用于移动平均的一般数学运算。其思想是，给定一些数据，您将数据子集(窗口)作为“掩码”或“内核”在数据中滑动，在每个窗口上执行特定的数学操作。在移动平均的情况下，核是平均值:

现在可以通过more_itertools.convolve使用这个实现。 More_itertools是一个流行的第三方包;通过> PIP Install more_itertools安装。

高效的解决方案

卷积比直接的方法好得多，但(我猜)它使用FFT，因此相当慢。但是，下面的方法特别适用于计算运行平均值

def running_mean(x, N):
    cumsum = numpy.cumsum(numpy.insert(x, 0, 0)) 
    return (cumsum[N:] - cumsum[:-N]) / float(N)

要检查的代码

In[3]: x = numpy.random.random(100000)
In[4]: N = 1000
In[5]: %timeit result1 = numpy.convolve(x, numpy.ones((N,))/N, mode='valid')
10 loops, best of 3: 41.4 ms per loop
In[6]: %timeit result2 = running_mean(x, N)
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.04 ms per loop

注意numpy。allclose(result1, result2)为True，两个方法等价。 N越大，时间差异越大。

警告:虽然cumsum更快，但会增加浮点错误，这可能导致您的结果无效/不正确/不可接受

这里的评论指出了这个浮点错误问题，但我在回答中让它更明显。

# demonstrate loss of precision with only 100,000 points
np.random.seed(42)
x = np.random.randn(100000)+1e6
y1 = running_mean_convolve(x, 10)
y2 = running_mean_cumsum(x, 10)
assert np.allclose(y1, y2, rtol=1e-12, atol=0)

the more points you accumulate over the greater the floating point error (so 1e5 points is noticable, 1e6 points is more significant, more than 1e6 and you may want to resetting the accumulators) you can cheat by using np.longdouble but your floating point error still will get significant for relatively large number of points (around >1e5 but depends on your data) you can plot the error and see it increasing relatively fast the convolve solution is slower but does not have this floating point loss of precision the uniform_filter1d solution is faster than this cumsum solution AND does not have this floating point loss of precision

对于一个简短、快速的解决方案，在一个循环中完成所有事情，没有依赖关系，下面的代码工作得很好。

mylist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
N = 3
cumsum, moving_aves = [0], []

for i, x in enumerate(mylist, 1):
    cumsum.append(cumsum[i-1] + x)
    if i>=N:
        moving_ave = (cumsum[i] - cumsum[i-N])/N
        #can do stuff with moving_ave here
        moving_aves.append(moving_ave)

从其他答案来看，我不认为这是问题所要求的，但我需要保持一个不断增长的值列表的运行平均值。

因此，如果你想保持从某个地方(站点，测量设备等)获取的值的列表和最近n个值更新的平均值，你可以使用下面的代码，这将最大限度地减少添加新元素的工作:

class Running_Average(object):
    def __init__(self, buffer_size=10):
        """
        Create a new Running_Average object.

        This object allows the efficient calculation of the average of the last
        `buffer_size` numbers added to it.

        Examples
        --------
        >>> a = Running_Average(2)
        >>> a.add(1)
        >>> a.get()
        1.0
        >>> a.add(1)  # there are two 1 in buffer
        >>> a.get()
        1.0
        >>> a.add(2)  # there's a 1 and a 2 in the buffer
        >>> a.get()
        1.5
        >>> a.add(2)
        >>> a.get()  # now there's only two 2 in the buffer
        2.0
        """
        self._buffer_size = int(buffer_size)  # make sure it's an int
        self.reset()

    def add(self, new):
        """
        Add a new number to the buffer, or replaces the oldest one there.
        """
        new = float(new)  # make sure it's a float
        n = len(self._buffer)
        if n < self.buffer_size:  # still have to had numbers to the buffer.
            self._buffer.append(new)
            if self._average != self._average:  # ~ if isNaN().
                self._average = new  # no previous numbers, so it's new.
            else:
                self._average *= n  # so it's only the sum of numbers.
                self._average += new  # add new number.
                self._average /= (n+1)  # divide by new number of numbers.
        else:  # buffer full, replace oldest value.
            old = self._buffer[self._index]  # the previous oldest number.
            self._buffer[self._index] = new  # replace with new one.
            self._index += 1  # update the index and make sure it's...
            self._index %= self.buffer_size  # ... smaller than buffer_size.
            self._average -= old/self.buffer_size  # remove old one...
            self._average += new/self.buffer_size  # ...and add new one...
            # ... weighted by the number of elements.

    def __call__(self):
        """
        Return the moving average value, for the lazy ones who don't want
        to write .get .
        """
        return self._average

    def get(self):
        """
        Return the moving average value.
        """
        return self()

    def reset(self):
        """
        Reset the moving average.

        If for some reason you don't want to just create a new one.
        """
        self._buffer = []  # could use np.empty(self.buffer_size)...
        self._index = 0  # and use this to keep track of how many numbers.
        self._average = float('nan')  # could use np.NaN .

    def get_buffer_size(self):
        """
        Return current buffer_size.
        """
        return self._buffer_size

    def set_buffer_size(self, buffer_size):
        """
        >>> a = Running_Average(10)
        >>> for i in range(15):
        ...     a.add(i)
        ...
        >>> a()
        9.5
        >>> a._buffer  # should not access this!!
        [10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0]

        Decreasing buffer size:
        >>> a.buffer_size = 6
        >>> a._buffer  # should not access this!!
        [9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0]
        >>> a.buffer_size = 2
        >>> a._buffer
        [13.0, 14.0]

        Increasing buffer size:
        >>> a.buffer_size = 5
        Warning: no older data available!
        >>> a._buffer
        [13.0, 14.0]

        Keeping buffer size:
        >>> a = Running_Average(10)
        >>> for i in range(15):
        ...     a.add(i)
        ...
        >>> a()
        9.5
        >>> a._buffer  # should not access this!!
        [10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0]
        >>> a.buffer_size = 10  # reorders buffer!
        >>> a._buffer
        [5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0]
        """
        buffer_size = int(buffer_size)
        # order the buffer so index is zero again:
        new_buffer = self._buffer[self._index:]
        new_buffer.extend(self._buffer[:self._index])
        self._index = 0
        if self._buffer_size < buffer_size:
            print('Warning: no older data available!')  # should use Warnings!
        else:
            diff = self._buffer_size - buffer_size
            print(diff)
            new_buffer = new_buffer[diff:]
        self._buffer_size = buffer_size
        self._buffer = new_buffer

    buffer_size = property(get_buffer_size, set_buffer_size)

你可以测试它，例如:

def graph_test(N=200):
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    values = list(range(N))
    values_average_calculator = Running_Average(N/2)
    values_averages = []
    for value in values:
        values_average_calculator.add(value)
        values_averages.append(values_average_calculator())
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1)
    ax.plot(values, label='values')
    ax.plot(values_averages, label='averages')
    ax.grid()
    ax.set_xlim(0, N)
    ax.set_ylim(0, N)
    fig.show()

这使:

出于教学目的，让我再添加两个Numpy解决方案(比cumsum解决方案慢):

import numpy as np
from numpy.lib.stride_tricks import as_strided

def ra_strides(arr, window):
    ''' Running average using as_strided'''
    n = arr.shape[0] - window + 1
    arr_strided = as_strided(arr, shape=[n, window], strides=2*arr.strides)
    return arr_strided.mean(axis=1)

def ra_add(arr, window):
    ''' Running average using add.reduceat'''
    n = arr.shape[0] - window + 1
    indices = np.array([0, window]*n) + np.repeat(np.arange(n), 2)
    arr = np.append(arr, 0)
    return np.add.reduceat(arr, indices )[::2]/window

使用的函数:as_strided, add.reduceat