Standard Deviation

[Stephen Barrow]

Can somebody tell me how I can change this code to allow me to hard code the values into it? such as double [] values = {10,20,30,4,2};
import java.util.*;
public class Deviator
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{

Deviator deviator = new Deviator();
List values = deviator.getValues(args);
double mean = deviator.calculateMean(values);
double stddev = deviator.calculateStandardDeviation(values);
System.out.println("values: " + values);
System.out.println("mean : " + mean);
System.out.println("stddev: " + stddev);

System.out.println("No arguments");

}
public List getValues(final String [] args)
{
List values = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i)
{
try
{
Double value = Double.valueOf(args[i]);
values.add(value);
}
catch (NumberFormatException e)
{
System.err.println("Not a number: " + args[i]);
}
}
return values;
}

public double calculateMean(final List values)
{
double mean = 0.0;
int numValues = values.size();
for (int i = 0; i < numValues; ++i)
mean += ((Double)values.get(i)).doubleValue();
return mean/numValues;
}
public double calculateStandardDeviation(final List values)
{
double mean = this.calculateMean(values);
double sum = 0.0;
int numValues = values.size();
for (int i = 0; i < numValues; ++i)
{
double value = ((Double)values.get(i)).doubleValue();
double diff = value - mean;
sum += diff*diff;
}
return Math.sqrt(sum/(numValues - 1));
}
}

[fred rosenberger]

There's no need to post this to multiple forums. most people just find it annoying, and it makes it harder to figure out where to post an answer.