The Pearson correlation can be calculated with numpy's corrcoef.
import numpy
numpy.corrcoef(list1, list2)[0, 1]
I am looking for a function that takes as input two lists, and returns the Pearson correlation, and the significance of the correlation.
from pydoc import help
from scipy.stats.stats import pearsonr
help(pearsonr)
>>>
Help on function pearsonr in module scipy.stats.stats:
pearsonr(x, y)
Calculates a Pearson correlation coefficient and the p-value for testing
non-correlation.
The Pearson correlation coefficient measures the linear relationship
between two datasets. Strictly speaking, Pearson's correlation requires
that each dataset be normally distributed. Like other correlation
coefficients, this one varies between -1 and +1 with 0 implying no
correlation. Correlations of -1 or +1 imply an exact linear
relationship. Positive correlations imply that as x increases, so does
y. Negative correlations imply that as x increases, y decreases.
The p-value roughly indicates the probability of an uncorrelated system
producing datasets that have a Pearson correlation at least as extreme
as the one computed from these datasets. The p-values are not entirely
reliable but are probably reasonable for datasets larger than 500 or so.
Parameters
----------
x : 1D array
y : 1D array the same length as x
Returns
-------
(Pearson's correlation coefficient,
2-tailed p-value)
References
----------
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/glosp.html#Pearson%20Correlation
This post was edited by Rakesh Racharla at September 23, 2020 11:03 AM IST
The Pearson correlation can be calculated with numpy's corrcoef.
import numpy
numpy.corrcoef(list1, list2)[0, 1]
If you don't feel like installing scipy, I've used this quick hack, slightly modified from Programming Collective Intelligence:
from itertools import imap
def pearsonr(x, y):
# Assume len(x) == len(y)
n = len(x)
sum_x = float(sum(x))
sum_y = float(sum(y))
sum_x_sq = sum(map(lambda x: pow(x, 2), x))
sum_y_sq = sum(map(lambda x: pow(x, 2), y))
psum = sum(imap(lambda x, y: x * y, x, y))
num = psum - (sum_x * sum_y/n)
den = pow((sum_x_sq - pow(sum_x, 2) / n) * (sum_y_sq - pow(sum_y, 2) / n), 0.5)
if den == 0: return 0
return num / den
The following code is a straight-up interpretation of the definition:
import math
def average(x):
assert len(x) > 0
return float(sum(x)) / len(x)
def pearson_def(x, y):
assert len(x) == len(y)
n = len(x)
assert n > 0
avg_x = average(x)
avg_y = average(y)
diffprod = 0
xdiff2 = 0
ydiff2 = 0
for idx in range(n):
xdiff = x[idx] - avg_x
ydiff = y[idx] - avg_y
diffprod += xdiff * ydiff
xdiff2 += xdiff * xdiff
ydiff2 += ydiff * ydiff
return diffprod / math.sqrt(xdiff2 * ydiff2)
Test:
print pearson_def([1,2,3], [1,5,7])
returns
0.981980506062
This agrees with Excel, this calculator, SciPy (also NumPy), which return 0.981980506 and 0.9819805060619657, and 0.98198050606196574, respectively.
R:
> cor( c(1,2,3), c(1,5,7))
[1] 0.9819805
This post was edited by Laksh Nath at September 23, 2020 11:10 AM IST
You can do this with pandas.DataFrame.corr, too:
import pandas as pd
a = [[1, 2, 3],
[5, 6, 9],
[5, 6, 11],
[5, 6, 13],
[5, 3, 13]]
df = pd.DataFrame(data=a)
df.corr()
This gives
0 1 2
0 1.000000 0.745601 0.916579
1 0.745601 1.000000 0.544248
2 0.916579 0.544248 1.000000