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Posted to user@jmeter.apache.org by Andrew Melnyk <me...@gmail.com> on 2008/08/06 16:43:00 UTC

Again about 90% line calculations

Hi gentleman,

There were a lot of discussion about the meaning of 90% line property of
Aggregate graph.
I would like to know the exact formula which used to count this value.

Thnaks in advance,
Andrey

Re: Again about 90% line calculations

Posted by Andrey Beznogov <an...@googlemail.com>.
Hi,

I looked into the code, and it seems that that graphs class is
org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.DistributionGraph.

It seems that in the end the 90% value is calculated by calling the
getPercentPoint(0.90) method of an instance of
org.apache.jorphan.math.StatCalculator class:

/**
 * This class serves as a way to calculate the median of a list of values. It is
 * not threadsafe.
 */
public class StatCalculator implements Serializable {
	List values = new ArrayList();

................

	public void addValue(Number val) {
		addSortedValue(val);
		count++;
		double currentVal = val.doubleValue();
		sum += currentVal;
		sumOfSquares += currentVal * currentVal;
		mean = sum / count;
		deviation = Math.sqrt((sumOfSquares / count) - (mean * mean));
	}

	/**
	 * @param val
	 */
	private void addSortedValue(Number val) {
		int index = Collections.binarySearch(values, val);
		if (index >= 0 && index < values.size()) {
			values.add(index, val);
		} else if (index == values.size() || values.size() == 0) {
			values.add(val);
		} else {
			values.add((index * (-1)) - 1, val);
		}
	}
..................

	/**
	 * Get the value which %percent% of the values are less than. This works
	 * just like median (where median represents the 50% point). A typical
	 * desire is to see the 90% point - the value that 90% of the data points
	 * are below, the remaining 10% are above.
	 *
	 * @param percent
	 * @return number of values less than the percentage
	 */
	public Number getPercentPoint(float percent) {
		if (count > 0) {
			return (Number) values.get((int) (values.size() * percent));
		}
		return new Long(0);
	}

.................

Long story short, the values passed to this class instance are cast to
Number and stored in the List sorted by their values.

If we have a List of N values, their indexes will be 0, 1 .... (N-1).

When the getPercentPoint(0.90) is called, float value (N * 0.9) is
cast to integer M so that "the fractional part of the floating point
number is truncated (not rounded)", and the element with index M is
returned.

For example, for a List with 155 values (indexed as 0, 1 ... 154)
float 155*0.9=139.5 cast to int will give us 139, and the value with
index 139 will be returned as "90%" value.

Regards,
Andrey


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Oliver Erlewein (DSLWN)
<Ol...@datacom.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some say that it is [0.9*len(values)]+1. I think the difference is probably not that critical. What would be good to know is how JMeter itself arrives at the value.
>
> A good text on the subject's on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile)
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronan Klyne [mailto:ronan.klyne@groupbc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 2:50 a.m.
> To: JMeter Users List
> Subject: Re: Again about 90% line calculations
>
> Andrew Melnyk wrote:
>> Hi gentleman,
>>
>> There were a lot of discussion about the meaning of 90% line property of
>> Aggregate graph.
>> I would like to know the exact formula which used to count this value.
>
> You get your values sorted in an array (called, say, 'values').
>
> The 90th percentile is then values[0.9*len(values)]
>
>
>        # r
>
> --
> Ronan Klyne
> Business Collaborator Developer
> Tel: +44 01189 028518
> ronan.klyne@groupbc.com
> www.groupbc.com
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RE: Again about 90% line calculations

Posted by "Oliver Erlewein (DSLWN)" <Ol...@datacom.co.nz>.
Hi,

Some say that it is [0.9*len(values)]+1. I think the difference is probably not that critical. What would be good to know is how JMeter itself arrives at the value.

A good text on the subject's on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile)

Regards
Oliver

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronan Klyne [mailto:ronan.klyne@groupbc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 2:50 a.m.
To: JMeter Users List
Subject: Re: Again about 90% line calculations

Andrew Melnyk wrote:
> Hi gentleman,
> 
> There were a lot of discussion about the meaning of 90% line property of
> Aggregate graph.
> I would like to know the exact formula which used to count this value.

You get your values sorted in an array (called, say, 'values').

The 90th percentile is then values[0.9*len(values)]


	# r

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Business Collaborator Developer
Tel: +44 01189 028518
ronan.klyne@groupbc.com
www.groupbc.com

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Re: Again about 90% line calculations

Posted by Ronan Klyne <ro...@groupbc.com>.
Andrew Melnyk wrote:
> Hi gentleman,
> 
> There were a lot of discussion about the meaning of 90% line property of
> Aggregate graph.
> I would like to know the exact formula which used to count this value.

You get your values sorted in an array (called, say, 'values').

The 90th percentile is then values[0.9*len(values)]


	# r

-- 
Ronan Klyne
Business Collaborator Developer
Tel: +44 01189 028518
ronan.klyne@groupbc.com
www.groupbc.com

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