Questions tagged [scipy]
SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
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Scipy curve_fit and method “dogbox” [on hold]
I am trying to duplicate this papers feature engineering for user activity. They take 14 days of accumulated user activity and keep the parameters (2 parameters) that fit a sigmoid to it. I would like ...
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Is Fisher Kurtosis the same as Excess Kurtosis?
The documentation for scipy.stats.describe() defines the returned kurtosis like so:
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Fitting data to a distribution that appears lognormal without right-hump
I will like to fit a distribution and extract its moments in Python, given Length of Stay (LOS) data in hospitals.
Asking out of curiosity, suppose the plot of the data looks like:
The reason why I ...
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Fitting Beta Distributions to Data
I am trying to reproduce some beta distribution parameters found in this published paper. I have two data sets, y1 and y2, that ...
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Calculating standard errors of non-OLS regressions in python and scipy [closed]
Scipy/statsmodels provides the ability to get a number of metrics from the output of an OLS regression model, a few examples of which (from statsmodels) are the following:
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Weighted Minkowski distance for DBSCAN
I'm trying to make clustering of image's pixels with DBSCAN, using RGB values and pixel's coordinates as features. It works well with just RGB values as features, but I want pixels with the same color,...
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Gamma Distribution CDF Intuition; Are My Parameters Correct?
I'm learning about gamma distributions and I want to make sure my reasoning is correct for an example I found here.
Suppose you are fishing and you expect to get a fish once every 1/2
hour. ...
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Goodness of fit measurement in Python
I have a (pretty noisy) 1D array of data in Python that I fit a linear function to -- see plot below. The x-axis is a wavelength scale.
I would like to measure the "goodness of fit" of this new line ...
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Optimizing a piecewise-linear, convex function [closed]
I want to find the matrix $U$ that minimizes the following loss function:
$$ \min_U( \max_{0 \le j \le t} (\operatorname{tr}(W_jU) + b_j) + \operatorname{tr}(U^TU)) $$
The given loss function is ...
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Truncate a Hierarchical Clustering tree in order to get the cophenetic coefficient
I've gone ahead and clustered a dataset using a Euclidian Hierarchical Clustering algorithm:
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Chi Square Analysis Throws Error - The internally computed table of expected frequencies has a zero element at (0,)
I am trying to see the association between two variables. I used Chi-Square analysis in Scipy package in Python.
Here is the crosstab result of the two variables:
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Difference between p-value of chi-squared calculation, and p-value in “critical value” lookup table
I am learning about chi-squared. It has two steps; a) chi-squared calculation b) critical value
When I calculate chi-squared, the output includes a) chi-squared statistic (220.5) and b) a p-value (...
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least square with equality constraint and singular matrix
I have the following problem to solve:
Ax = b where A is singular.
To resolve this I introduce a condition Cx = d
Even after this, I am not able to solve it using scipy.optimize.minimize as it ...
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How to improve Pairwise Euclidean Distance for Similarity Measure
I am trying to identify the most similar stations between two DataFrames like below:
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Can't understand the Beta distribution as described in this paper
I'm reading through the following paper (1). On page 2, section 2.1, there's a description of the selection of a beta distribution used:
Since both the choice of s and the strategy for handling the
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Fixing the maximum distance within a cluster
I am trying to cluster geographical locations in such a way that all the locations inside each cluster are at max within 25 miles of each other. For this, I am using Agglomerative clustering. I am ...
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Why is computing ridge regression with a Cholesky decomposition much quicker than using SVD?
By my understanding, for a matrix with n samples and p features:
Ridge regression using Cholesky decomposition takes O(p^3) time
Ridge regression using SVD takes O(p^3) time
Computing SVD when only ...
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Why is it much quicker to compute ridge regression than regular linear regression?
By my understanding, for a matrix with n samples and p features:
Ridge regression using cholesky takes O(p^3) time
Ordinary linear regression takes O(p^3) time
Singular value decomposition if u, v ...
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How to stop fmin_slqsp from converging to local minimum?
I want to run linear regression with inequality constraints and non-negative coefficients.
My data looks roughly like this:
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Proper way to plot confidence interval under normal distribution curve?
I write a small program which calculates a confidence interval for a given norm value. The output is then visualized by plotting the confidence interval and the corresponding hypothetical norm value ...
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Numerical approximation of sandwich estimator
I have found the MLE of a model using scipy.optimize.minimize with the BFGS algorithm. As is commonly done, I intend to estimate the variance from
$$ Var(\theta_0) ...
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Using ANOVA to judge Yes/Sometimes/No questions ability to significantly predict a continuous variable?
I have a dataset that looks something like this:
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How to estimate the leafsize of the kd-tree?
The kd-tree implementation proposed by the scipy python libray asks for the value of the leafsize parameter that is to say the maximum number of points a node can hold. It is by default set to 10.
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Constructing an appropriate null hypothesis?
I have a collection of 20 2D surfaces embedded in 3D. The mean curvature of each surface has been sampled.
The number of samples per surface varies from ~700,000 to ~20,000,000. The choice of ...
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Calculating P-value for multivariate normal distributions?
I'm given a set of 500 ($\sigma_i, \mu_i$) that define a 500-dimensional multivariate normal distribution, where each dimension is effectively independent from all the others.
Given a 500-...
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How does scipy calculate the binomial CDF so fast?
I ran scipy.stats.binom.cdf(500006, 1000000, 0.5) and it took less than a milisecond. This is crazy as binomial CDF involves summing up a bunch of binomial coefficients. What approximation algorithm ...
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How to perform batch training using L-BFGS?
I want to train a neural network for regression.
The neural network is actually composed of 4 separate child neural networks, each child neural network has a layer structure of
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How to calculate the p-value of a test, that checked for a binary property?
16081 subjects were randomly assigned into two groups:
test group: 7916 subjects
control group: 8165 subjects
Only the test group was exposed to something. During the test period
10 subjects of ...
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Normal distribution test ( D'Agostino and Pearson's) in Scipy - results don't make sense
I want to test if an array of numbers is approximately normally distributed.
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3 Layer neural network (feedforward and backpropagation) - Desired error not necessarily achieved due to precision loss
I am trying to implement a 3 layer neural network with feedforward and backpropagation.
I have tested my cost function and it is working fine. My gradient function also seems ok.
but when I try to ...
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Remove individual points and find slope
I am trying to delete one pair of x and y coordinates from a set of 10 data points and get the slope for the other 9 points.
How do I go about this issue?
Attached herewith is an image of what I am ...
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Update R2 and slope by removing outliers-python [closed]
I am using the following code to find out Linregress parameters:
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Statsmodels' Negative Binomial: after .fit_regularized(), how to turn PMF into PPF to get the discrete values?
I used the package statsmodels to fit a Negative Binomial to my data. This data contains ~1500 samples with 21 covariates. Since I have overdispersion in my data ...
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Can findings based on low values be considered valid?
Lets say i do have a TimeSeries with N > 300 but values like [0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 2, ...] representing the visitors count of a website per day.
Since there are only few visitors and each of them can be ...
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Periodogram interpretaion to get main cycles for time serie
I try to use the periodogram in order to get main cycle on my time series. My time series is a the result of measure every hour of one variable related with the atmosphere. So in one day I have 24 ...
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How to know if a parameter is statistically significant in a “curve_fit” estimation? [closed]
I use curve_fit from scipy to estimate parameter values from a specific function.
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nmf in scipy returns components with all zero weights
I'm trying to understand whether this behavior is a bug or a feature.
Essentially, I have a dataset of ten thousand short pieces of text. I have used the CountVectorizer function to turn this into a ...
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Mode of function kstest in module scipy.stats.stats
In the function kstest in module scipy.stats.stats, there are two options for the mode, described in the help file:
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Gaussian Mixture Model
with the following code I fit a Gaussian Mixture Model to arbitrarily created data. The code is working. The only thing I encounter is that during the calculation of the multivariate_normal I ...
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Bandwidth parameters in multivariate KDE using scipy.stats.gaussian_kde
I am working on a project which involves implementing in Python two different density estimation functions over multivariate data; one using N-d histograms and the other using kernel density ...
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Interpreting p value in SciPy Welch's T-Test [duplicate]
Can someone help me understand the meaning of the p-value of the Whelch's T Test in SciPy?
test = stats.ttest_ind(x, y, equal_var=False)
gives me
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How to Compare the Data Distribution of 2 datasets?
I'm having trouble to understand how to compare 2 sets of data by their distribution .
For Example,
how can I understand that column X100 has the same distribution as column Y1?
Also, is there a ...
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Normality test giving confusing results
So I was transforming data for machine learning purposes and checking whether I should use the data or log-transform it. In addition to creating histograms I decided to test for normality using ...
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Tuning skopt to minimise correctly
I have a problem where I need to fit a pair of parameters in a model to best fit observed data for hundreds of instances. I need to determine these parameters to high accuracy, rather than just ...
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Understanding hypothesis testing (Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney) when there are tied values
tldr: In Python's Scipy stats modules, the kruskal and mannwhitneyu functions will both raise an error if called with only ...
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Fitting two parallel lines with mutually excluding samples
I have a set of (slightly noisy) data taken from two (or more) curves, but taken either from one or the other curve. As an example, consider this code (in reality, data is noisier, especially in how ...
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Time Series: use of Box-Cox to reduce the “noise”
I am researching the best method to use with time series. FBprophet (Python) seems like a strong option.
To prepare time series for Prophet I am thinking about using boxcox and inv_boxcox at the end
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scipy.optimize.minimize How to manage different units?
I am wondering how spicy.optimize.minimize manages different units in the searched vector. My vector is [x,y,z,yaw,pitch,roll]. The first three are translations in <...
