spc_mt_unit_space — SPC mt op

• Data kinds: matrix → table

• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.spc_mt_unit_space(data) (to call the implementation directly, import spc; spc.spc_mt_unit_space(data); from the registry, opsspc.get("spc_mt_unit_space"))

Usage

Build an MT-method unit space from known-good observations.

data is a 2-D array of shape (n, p) — n observations of p features, all of which must be normal product. The unit space is the triple (mean, std, inv_corr): per-feature mean and ddof=1 standard deviation, and the inverse of the correlation matrix of the standardised data. Feed it to spc_mt_distance to score new observations.

Returns a dict with mean, std, corr and inv_corr arrays, the unit space's own md per row, md_sq_mean, the exact expected value md_sq_mean_exact = (n-1)/n, the counts n and p, how many features had no spread (flat_features), and whether the correlation matrix was singular enough to need a pseudo-inverse (pseudo_inverse).

The mean of md**2 over the unit space equals (n-1)/n exactly — the quantitative form of "a unit space averages a distance of one". It reaches 1 only as n grows; the deficit is exactly 1/n.

Raises ValueError: a non-2-D / empty *data*, fewer than two observations (no spread to standardise by), zero features, or non-finite input.

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• poc_mt_hidden_fault — py -3.11 examples/poc_mt_hidden_fault.py

• poc_spc — py -3.11 examples/poc_spc.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept table as input)

msa_anova_table · msa_gauge_rr · msa_bias_linearity · msa_attribute_agreement · gum_standard_uncertainty · gum_propagate · gum_expanded · gum_monte_carlo

Same category (mt)

spc_mt_distance · spc_mt_sn_ratio


*Provenance: spc.py — SPC operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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