[SciPy-User] zscore axis functionality is borked
josef.pktd at gmail.com
josef.pktd at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 15:54:54 EST 2011
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Alacast <alacast at gmail.com> wrote:
>> axis=0 (the default) works fine. axis=1, etc, is clearly wrong. Am I
>> misunderstanding how to use this, or is this a bug?
>>
>> In [16]: i = rand(4,4)
>>
>> In [17]: i
>> Out[17]:
>> array([[ 0.85367762, 0.25348857, 0.23572615, 0.50403358],
>> [ 0.70199066, 0.81872151, 0.47357357, 0.20425537],
>> [ 0.31042673, 0.25837984, 0.73550134, 0.57970176],
>> [ 0.42828877, 0.60988596, 0.04059321, 0.73944219]])
>>
>> In [18]: zscore(i, axis=0)
>> Out[18]:
>> array([[ 1.30128758, -0.96195723, -0.52119142, -0.01453907],
>> [ 0.59653471, 1.38544585, 0.39284654, -1.55756529],
>> [-1.22271057, -0.94164388, 1.39942427, 0.37494213],
>> [-0.67511172, 0.51815526, -1.27107939, 1.19716222]])
>>
>> In [19]: zscore(i[:,0])
>> Out[19]: array([ 1.30128758, 0.59653471, -1.22271057, -0.67511172])
>>
>> In [20]: zscore(i[:,0])==zscore(i,axis=0)[:,0]
>> Out[20]: array([ True, True, True, True], dtype=bool)
>>
>> In [21]: zscore(i, axis=1)
>> Out[21]:
>> array([[-0.99378502, -1.59397407, -1.61173649, -1.34342906],
>> [-1.6379836 , -1.52125275, -1.86640069, -2.13571889],
>> [-2.09968257, -2.15172946, -1.67460796, -1.83040754],
>> [-1.29796925, -1.11637205, -1.68566481, -0.98681582]])
>> #The above is obviously wrong, as everything has a negative z score
>>
>> In [22]: zscore(i[0,:])
>> Out[22]: array([ 1.56824016, -0.83321371, -0.90428403, 0.16925757])
>>
>> In [23]: zscore(i[0,:])==zscore(i,axis=1)[0,:]
>> Out[23]: array([False, False, False, False], dtype=bool)
>> #Using axis=1 produces different results from taking a row directly.
>>
>> In [24]: zscore(i, axis=-1)
>> Out[24]:
>> array([[-0.99378502, -1.59397407, -1.61173649, -1.34342906],
>> [-1.6379836 , -1.52125275, -1.86640069, -2.13571889],
>> [-2.09968257, -2.15172946, -1.67460796, -1.83040754],
>> [-1.29796925, -1.11637205, -1.68566481, -0.98681582]])
>> #Getting rows by using axis=-1 is no better (this is the same result as
>> axis=1
>
> This looks like a serious bug to me. I don't know what happened here (.
>
> The docstring example also has negative numbers only.
>
> ???
>
> I'm looking into it
>
> Thanks for reporting
a misplaced axis: if axis>0
then it calculates x - mean/std instead of (x - mean) / std
now, how did this go through the testing ?
Josef
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