Statistics Tools¶
NOTE: In this notebook I use the module scipy.stats for all statistics
functions, including generation of random numbers. There are other modules with some overlapping functionality, e.g., the regular python random module, and the scipy.random module, but I do not use them here. The scipy.stats module includes tools for a large number of distributions, it includes a large and growing set of statistical functions, and there is a unified class structure. (And namespace issues are minimized.) See https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/stats.html.
import scipy as sp
from scipy import stats
import matplotlib as mpl # As of July 2017 Bucknell computers use v. 2.x
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Following is an Ipython magic command that puts figures in the notebook.
# For figures in separate windows, comment out following line and uncomment
# the next line
# Must come before defaults are changed.
%matplotlib notebook
#%matplotlib
# As of Aug. 2017 reverting to 1.x defaults.
# In 2.x text.ustex requires dvipng, texlive-latex-extra, and texlive-fonts-recommended,
# which don't seem to be universal
# See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38906356/error-running-matplotlib-in-latex-type1cm?
mpl.style.use('classic')
# M.L. modifications of matplotlib defaults using syntax of v.2.0
# More info at http://matplotlib.org/2.0.0/users/deflt_style_changes.html
# Changes can also be put in matplotlibrc file, or effected using mpl.rcParams[]
plt.rc('figure', figsize = (6, 4.5)) # Reduces overall size of figures
plt.rc('axes', labelsize=16, titlesize=14)
plt.rc('figure', autolayout = True) # Adjusts supblot parameters for new size
Generating random integers¶
# Generate n integers between low and high:
low, high, n = (-3, 6, 100)
sp.stats.randint.rvs(low, high+1, size=n)
Sampling random numbers from a uniform p.d.f.¶
# Sample n random numbers in interval [0.0,1.0):
n = 10
sp.stats.uniform.rvs(size=10)
Sampling random numbers from a normal distribution¶
Sample $n$ random numbers from the normal distribution with mean $\mu$, standard deviation $\sigma$, and pdf of Eq.(2.4) of Hughes & Hase: \begin{equation} p(x) = \frac{1}{\sigma\sqrt{2\pi}}\exp\left[-\frac{(x-\mu)^2}{\sigma^2}\right] \end{equation}
# Sampling from normal distribution
n = 10
mean = 10.
sigma = 2.
sp.stats.norm.rvs(mean, sigma, size=n)
Graph the pdf of the normal distribution.
x = sp.linspace(mean-3.*sigma, mean+3.*sigma,200)
y = sp.stats.norm.pdf(x, mean, sigma)
plt.figure(1)
plt.title("pdf of normal distribution")
plt.xlabel("$x$")
plt.ylabel("$p(x)$")
plt.grid()
plt.plot(x, y);
Graph cdf of normal distribution
x = sp.linspace(mean-3.*sigma, mean+3.*sigma, 200)
y = sp.stats.norm.cdf(x, mean, sigma)
plt.figure(2)
plt.title("cdf of normal distribution")
plt.xlabel("$x$")
plt.ylabel("$\int_{-\infty}^x p(x^\prime)\, dx^\prime$")
plt.grid()
plt.plot(x, y);
Sampling random numbers from a Poisson distribution¶
Sample $n$ random numbers from the Poisson distribution with average count $\overline{N}$, and probability distibution given by Eq.(3.1) of Hughes & Hase: \begin{equation} p(N;\overline{N}) = \frac{\exp\left(-\overline{N}\right)\overline{N}^N}{N!} \end{equation} The standard deviation of the Poisson distribution is given by $$ \sigma = \sqrt{\overline{N}}. $$
# Sampling from a Poisson distribution
n = 100
mean = 5
sp.stats.poisson.rvs(mean, size=n)
sp.mean(_) # The underscore "_" is similar to Mathematicas "%"
# It refers to the output of the previously executed cell
sp.std(__) # Notice the double underscore "__"
sp.sqrt(mean)
Graph of pmf ($\sim$pdf) of Poisson distribution¶
x = sp.linspace(0, 12, 13)
y = sp.stats.poisson.pmf(x, mean)
plt.figure(3)
plt.title("pmf of Poisson distribution")
plt.xlabel("$n$")
plt.ylabel("$p(n)$")
plt.grid()
plt.axhline(0)
plt.scatter(x, y);
Graph cdf of Poisson distribution¶
x = sp.linspace(0, 12, 13)
y = sp.stats.poisson.cdf(x, mean)
plt.figure(4)
plt.title("cdf of Poisson distribution")
plt.xlabel("$x$")
plt.ylabel("cdf")
plt.xlim(-1, 13)
plt.grid()
plt.axhline(0)
plt.scatter(x, y);
Sampling random numbers from a binomial distribution¶
Consider $n$ trials, with probability of success $p$ in each trial. The array below is the number successes in each of $size$ trials.
# Sampling from a binomial distribution
n = 2
p = 0.4
sp.stats.binom.rvs(n, p, size=100)
sp.mean(_)
The probablity of getting $x$ successes is given by the probability mass function (pmf). This is analogous to the continous pdf (and it's called the PDF in Mathematica). As an example, the probability of 2 successes in 3 trials with a probability of success in each trial of 0.4 is 29%:
n, s, p = (3, 2, 0.4)
sp.stats.binom.pmf(s, n, p)
Graph of pmf (~pdf) of binomial distribution¶
n = 5
x = sp.linspace(0, n, n+1)
y = sp.stats.binom.pmf(x, n, p)
plt.figure(5)
plt.title("pmf ($\sim$pdf) of binom. dist.; $n=5$, $p = 0.4$")
plt.xlabel("$n$")
plt.ylabel("probability of $n$ successes")
plt.grid()
plt.axhline(0)
plt.scatter(x, y);
Graph of cdf of binomial distribution¶
n = 5
x = sp.linspace(0, n, n+1)
y = sp.stats.binom.cdf(x, n, p)
plt.figure(6)
plt.title("cdf of binomial dist.; $n=5$, $p = 0.4$")
plt.xlabel("$n$")
plt.ylabel("cdf")
plt.grid()
plt.axhline(0)
plt.scatter(x, y);
Histograms¶
# Generate some random data from a normal distribution.
n = 100
mean = 10.
sigma = 2.
data = sp.stats.norm.rvs(mean, sigma, size=n)
# Select number of bins between low and high values.
# plt.hist outputs the binned data and plots the histogram.
nbins = 6
low = mean - 3*sigma
high = mean + 3*sigma
plt.figure(7)
plt.xlabel("value")
plt.ylabel("occurences")
plt.title("Histogram; equal sized bins")
out = plt.hist(data, nbins, [low,high])
out[0],out[1] # occurrences and bin boundaries
# Select specific bin boundaries
# plt.hist outputs the binned data and plots the histogram.
bins = [4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16]
plt.figure(8)
plt.xlabel("value")
plt.ylabel("occurences")
plt.title("Histogram; specified (nonuniform) bins")
out = plt.hist(data, bins)
out[0],out[1] # occurrences and bin boundaries
Version Information¶
version_information is from J.R. Johansson (jrjohansson at gmail.com)
See Introduction to scientific computing with Python:
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jrjohansson/scientific-python-lectures/blob/master/Lecture-0-Scientific-Computing-with-Python.ipynb
for more information and instructions for package installation.
If version_information has been installed system wide (as it has been on Bucknell linux computers with shared file systems), continue with next cell as written. If not, comment out top line in next cell and uncomment the second line.
%load_ext version_information
#%install_ext http://raw.github.com/jrjohansson/version_information/master/version_information.py
version_information scipy, matplotlib