Suppose I have a large vector of integers ranging from 1 to 5. Now suppose I want to compute the average length of streaks of say, the number 5, where a single appearance of “5” before a different number appears, is counted as a streak of 1. So, for example, for the vector [1,2,5,5,1,5,3,5,5,5], th…

An efficient way to compute the average length of streaks of a given number

nilshg November 15, 2022, 12:47pm 4

I think you are looking for run length encoding, which is available in StatsBase

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