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+use rustframe::compute::stats::{mean, mean_horizontal, mean_vertical, median, percentile, stddev};
+use rustframe::matrix::Matrix;
+
+/// Demonstrates descriptive statistics utilities.
+///
+/// Part 1: simple mean/stddev/median/percentile on a vector.
+/// Part 2: mean across rows and columns.
+fn main() {
+    simple_stats();
+    println!("\n-----\n");
+    axis_stats();
+}
+
+fn simple_stats() {
+    println!("Basic stats\n-----------");
+    let data = Matrix::from_vec(vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0], 1, 5);
+    println!("mean      : {:.2}", mean(&data));
+    println!("stddev    : {:.2}", stddev(&data));
+    println!("median    : {:.2}", median(&data));
+    println!("90th pct. : {:.2}", percentile(&data, 90.0));
+}
+
+fn axis_stats() {
+    println!("Row/column means\n----------------");
+    // 2x3 matrix
+    let data = Matrix::from_rows_vec(vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0], 2, 3);
+    let v = mean_vertical(&data); // 1x3
+    let h = mean_horizontal(&data); // 2x1
+    println!("vertical means  : {:?}", v.data());
+    println!("horizontal means: {:?}", h.data());
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    const EPS: f64 = 1e-8;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_simple_stats() {
+        let data = Matrix::from_vec(vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0], 1, 5);
+        assert!((mean(&data) - 3.0).abs() < EPS);
+        assert!((stddev(&data) - 1.4142135623730951).abs() < EPS);
+        assert!((median(&data) - 3.0).abs() < EPS);
+        assert!((percentile(&data, 90.0) - 5.0).abs() < EPS);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_axis_stats() {
+        let data = Matrix::from_rows_vec(vec![1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0], 2, 3);
+        let v = mean_vertical(&data);
+        assert_eq!(v.data(), &[2.5, 3.5, 4.5]);
+        let h = mean_horizontal(&data);
+        assert_eq!(h.data(), &[2.0, 5.0]);
+    }
+}
+