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{{Short description|Concepts in statistics and computer science}}

An '''Aggregate pattern''' can refer to concepts in either statistics or computer programming. Both uses deal with considering a large case as composed of smaller, simpler, pieces.

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An '''Aggregate pattern''' can refer to concepts in either statistics or computer programming. Both uses dealsimplify withcomplexity considering a large case as composed ofinto smaller, simpler, piecesparts.

== Statistics ==

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== Computer programming ==

In ''[[Design Patterns]]'', an aggregate is not a [[Software design pattern|design pattern]] but rather refers to an object such as a list, vector, or generator which provides an interface for creating [[iterator]]s. The following example code is in [[Python (programming language)|Python]].

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def fibonacci(n: int):

a, b = 0, 1

count = 0

while count < n:

count += 1

a, b = b, a + b

yield a

for x in fibonacci(10):

print (x)

def fibsum(n: int) -> int:

total = 0

for x in fibonacci(n):

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return total

def fibsum_alt(n: int) -> int:

"""

Alternate implementation. demonstration that Python's built-in function sum()

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return sum(fibonacci(n))

myNumbers = [1, 7, 4, 3, 22]

def average(g) -> float:

return float(sum(g)) / len(g) # In Python 3 the cast to float willis no longer be necessary

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Python hides essentially all of the details using the [https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#iterator-types iterator protocol]. Confusingly, ''[[Design Patterns]]'' uses "aggregate" to refer to the blank in the code <code>for x in ___:</code> which is unrelated to the term "aggregation".<ref>[[Design Patterns]], p. 22: "Aggregation implies that one object owns or is responsible for another object. ... Aggregation implies that an aggregate object and its owner have identical lifetimes."</ref> Neither of these terms refer to the statistical aggregation of data such as the act of adding up the Fibonacci sequence or taking the average of a list of numbers.

== See also ==

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