Having an object in a list know statistical information about that list

For the sake of argument I have Person Objects

public class Person
{
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

I need to have a List or something similar where each person can tell if they are older or younger than the average age. (Ideally I want to say top 10% and bottom 10%) but I will settle for over under median.

Is there a way to do this?

List<Person> people = new List<Person>();
//Fill People
foreach(var person in people)
{ 
  if (person.TopTenPercent)
  { 
     Console.WriteLine(person.Name);
  }
}

Th开发者_运维问答anks Mark

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Really you should have the list or something else encapsulate this information (SRP and all that). So say that you have

class People : IEnumerable<Person> {
    public double MedianAge { get; }
    // etc.
}

Then you would say

foreach(var person in people.Where(p => p.Age >= people.MedianAge)) {
    Console.WriteLine(person.Name);
}

For the general case you can have a PercentileAge method on your People class:

public double PercentileAge(double percentile)

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You can use Linq:

1. Calculate the average (.Average()-Extension method)
2. Compute percentual distance to the average age
3. Select specified range

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Make a personlist that adds itself as a reference to the person so that the person can query the list's contents/stats