From 81748ecbbaa3fee6e4eecfb740f96b202a400152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Strimling <w@ml.to>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 21:53:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] calculate stats correctly for datetime type values

---
 src/stats.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/stats.js b/src/stats.js
index ec8bf68..0af6159 100644
--- a/src/stats.js
+++ b/src/stats.js
@@ -656,13 +656,17 @@ stats.mutual.dist = function(values, a, b, counts) {
 // Compute a profile of summary statistics for a variable.
 stats.profile = function(values, f) {
   var mean = 0,
+      median = 0,
       valid = 0,
       missing = 0,
       distinct = 0,
       min = null,
       max = null,
+      q1 = 0,
+      q3 = 0,
       M2 = 0,
       vals = [],
+      t = type(values, f),
       u = {}, delta, sd, i, v, x;
 
   // compute summary stats
@@ -676,7 +680,7 @@ stats.profile = function(values, f) {
       ++missing;
     } else if (util.isValid(v)) {
       // update stats
-      x = (typeof v === 'string') ? v.length : v;
+      x = (t === 'date') ? (new Date(v)).getTime() : (typeof v === 'string') ? v.length : v;
       if (min===null || x < min) min = x;
       if (max===null || x > max) max = x;
       delta = x - mean;
@@ -692,7 +696,7 @@ stats.profile = function(values, f) {
   vals.sort(util.cmp);
 
   return {
-    type:     type(values, f),
+    type:     t,
     unique:   u,
     count:    values.length,
     valid:    valid,