Questions tagged [scipy]
SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
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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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Calculate horizontal asymptote for data set with python
I have a data set comprised of X files. Each file contains Y 60-bit binary numbers that are not random but I don't have access to the rules that would tell me the allowed bit patterns and allow me 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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Problem with U Mann Whitney test in scipy for nominal values
When I am using scipy.stats.mannwhitneyu sometimes I got this error:
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'str'
Should not it work? I have noticed that scipy.stats....
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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 <...
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How to consider “pratt” zero method in Wilcoxon Test of R, which is available in Python Scipy?
I have a dataset of two columns which represent rank data. These ranks are ranged from 1, 2, and 3. To test the difference in medians between these two columns, I am considering the Wilcoxon rank-sum ...
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Database-friendly random projections with Numpy
In his well known paper [1], Achlioptas showed that Random Projections could be performed with a sparse projection matrix, whose nonzero entries are either $1$ or $-1$.
I have noticed that scikit-...
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Working between sklearn and scipy for convex optimization [closed]
I have a method for solving convex programs using an alternative method of iterative procedures and would like to compare this to current solvers methods.
My approach relies upon randomly projecting ...
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Methods for selecting the required n_components for TruncatedSVD?
Methods for selecting the required n_components for TruncatedSVD?
I found this (https://chrisalbon.com/machine_learning/feature_engineering/...
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can't make sense of scipy.lognorm [duplicate]
I have been trying to work with random variables in Python and more denerally. My model works with large numbers and lohnormal distributions, but it is very hard to get a clear answer anywhere on the ...
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Finding p-value and t-value for non-normal distributed datasets (multiple dataframes)
I'm currently working on a project that involves using data from 9 different dataframes. Each dataframe contains 58 rows and 8 columns, and they each contain different data (i.e. Unemployment Rate, ...
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Check whether two tables come from the same population
I have two data frames and I want to check whether they come from the same population.
Essentially, I want to go through the data columns one by one and, depending on column type and how many ...
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How to compare two classifiers performance using `scipy.stats.ttest_rel`?
I want to compare two classifier performance using T-Test. Using the scipy.stats.ttest_rel:
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Mahalanobis distance fixed at root 2
I have this data set of 12 input variables with a size of over 9000. Wanted to find any outliers using mahalanobis distance. As a central point, I decided to take mean and median of all observations, ...
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Assessing A/B test results using Python
Problem's setting
Assume having results of an A/B test.
You let you users experience two variants of your website and you counted how many converted:
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ODR residual variance and reduced chi^2 - do the beta uncertainties represent confidence intervals?
I'm looking for the relationship between residual variance of an Orthogonal Distance Regression (ODR) fit (as implemented in scipy.odr) and reduced $\chi^2$.
I'm ...
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How to make chisquare goodness of fit not vulnerable to a single high values?
There is an observation of a process, that I suppose to be a Poisson process.
And I'm trying to make a test, to check goodness of fit of my data with Poisson distribution.
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