On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyuejoy@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
It seems that there is not a percentile function for masked array in numpy or scipy? I checked numpy.percentile and scipy.percentile, it seems not support only nonmasked array? And there is no percentile function in scipy.stats.mstats, so I have to use np.percentile(arr.compressed()) I guess.
Thanks for any comments.
there is currently no ma.percentile, but numpy 1.9 which we will hopefully release as a first beta very soon, will contain np.nanpercentile which can be used to emulate ma.percentile for floating point data: r = np.nanpercentile(maskedarray.filled(np.nan), (5, 95), axis=(0,1)) r = ma.masked_array(r, np.isnan(r)) for 1 dimensional arrays np.percentile(arr.compressed(), (5, 95), overwrite_input=True) works fine and is also the fastest possible way. a generic masked percentile would be useful, patches for that are welcome. Ideally a patch should also take care of the poor performance of multitimensional nanpercentile along small axes similar to how this PR fixes it for ma.median/nanmedian: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4760