ak.linear_fit#

Defined in awkward.operations.ak_linear_fit on line 15.

ak.linear_fit(x, y, weight=None, axis=None, *, keepdims=False, mask_identity=False, flatten_records=unset)#
Parameters

  • x – One coordinate to use in the linear fit (anything ak.to_layout recognizes).

  • y – The other coordinate to use in the linear fit (anything ak.to_layout recognizes).

  • weight – Data that can be broadcasted to x and y to give each point a weight. Weighting points equally is the same as no weights; weighting some points higher increases the significance of those points. Weights can be zero or negative.

  • axis (None or int) – If None, combine all values from the array into a single scalar result; if an int, group by that axis: 0 is the outermost, 1 is the first level of nested lists, etc., and negative axis counts from the innermost: -1 is the innermost, -2 is the next level up, etc.

  • keepdims (bool) – If False, this function decreases the number of dimensions by 1; if True, the output values are wrapped in a new length-1 dimension so that the result of this operation may be broadcasted with the original array.

  • mask_identity (bool) – If True, the application of this function on empty lists results in None (an option type); otherwise, the calculation is followed through with the reducers’ identities, usually resulting in floating-point nan.

  • flatten_records (bool) – If True, axis=None combines fields from different records; otherwise, records raise an error.

Computes the linear fit of y with respect to x (many types supported, including all Awkward Arrays and Records, must be broadcastable to each other). The grouping is performed the same way as for reducers, though this operation is not a reducer and has no identity.

This function has no NumPy equivalent.

Passing all arguments to the reducers, the linear fit is calculated as

sumw            = ak.sum(weight)
sumwx           = ak.sum(weight * x)
sumwy           = ak.sum(weight * y)
sumwxx          = ak.sum(weight * x**2)
sumwxy          = ak.sum(weight * x * y)
delta           = (sumw*sumwxx) - (sumwx*sumwx)

intercept       = ((sumwxx*sumwy) - (sumwx*sumwxy)) / delta
slope           = ((sumw*sumwxy) - (sumwx*sumwy))   / delta
intercept_error = np.sqrt(sumwxx / delta)
slope_error     = np.sqrt(sumw   / delta)

The results, intercept, slope, intercept_error, and slope_error, are given as an ak.Record with four fields. The values of these fields might be arrays or even nested arrays; they match the structure of x and y.

See ak.sum for a complete description of handling nested lists and missing values (None) in reducers, and ak.mean for an example with another non-reducer.