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#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
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# Autogenerated from the notebook contrasts.ipynb.
# Edit the notebook and then sync the output with this file.
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# flake8: noqa
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# # Contrasts Overview
import numpy as np
import statsmodels.api as sm
# This document is based heavily on this excellent resource from UCLA
# http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/library/contrast_coding.htm
# A categorical variable of K categories, or levels, usually enters a
# regression as a sequence of K-1 dummy variables. This amounts to a linear
# hypothesis on the level means. That is, each test statistic for these
# variables amounts to testing whether the mean for that level is
# statistically significantly different from the mean of the base category.
# This dummy coding is called Treatment coding in R parlance, and we will
# follow this convention. There are, however, different coding methods that
# amount to different sets of linear hypotheses.
#
# In fact, the dummy coding is not technically a contrast coding. This is
# because the dummy variables add to one and are not functionally
# independent of the model's intercept. On the other hand, a set of
# *contrasts* for a categorical variable with `k` levels is a set of `k-1`
# functionally independent linear combinations of the factor level means
# that are also independent of the sum of the dummy variables. The dummy
# coding is not wrong *per se*. It captures all of the coefficients, but it
# complicates matters when the model assumes independence of the
# coefficients such as in ANOVA. Linear regression models do not assume
# independence of the coefficients and thus dummy coding is often the only
# coding that is taught in this context.
#
# To have a look at the contrast matrices in Patsy, we will use data from
# UCLA ATS. First let's load the data.
# #### Example Data
import pandas as pd
url = "https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/data/hsb2.csv"
hsb2 = pd.read_table(url, delimiter=",")
hsb2.head(10)
# It will be instructive to look at the mean of the dependent variable,
# write, for each level of race ((1 = Hispanic, 2 = Asian, 3 = African
# American and 4 = Caucasian)).
hsb2.groupby("race")["write"].mean()
# #### Treatment (Dummy) Coding
# Dummy coding is likely the most well known coding scheme. It compares
# each level of the categorical variable to a base reference level. The base
# reference level is the value of the intercept. It is the default contrast
# in Patsy for unordered categorical factors. The Treatment contrast matrix
# for race would be
from patsy.contrasts import Treatment
levels = [1, 2, 3, 4]
contrast = Treatment(reference=0).code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
# Here we used `reference=0`, which implies that the first level,
# Hispanic, is the reference category against which the other level effects
# are measured. As mentioned above, the columns do not sum to zero and are
# thus not independent of the intercept. To be explicit, let's look at how
# this would encode the `race` variable.
hsb2.race.head(10)
print(contrast.matrix[hsb2.race - 1, :][:20])
pd.get_dummies(hsb2.race.values, drop_first=False)
# This is a bit of a trick, as the `race` category conveniently maps to
# zero-based indices. If it does not, this conversion happens under the
# hood, so this will not work in general but nonetheless is a useful
# exercise to fix ideas. The below illustrates the output using the three
# contrasts above
from statsmodels.formula.api import ols
mod = ols("write ~ C(race, Treatment)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# We explicitly gave the contrast for race; however, since Treatment is
# the default, we could have omitted this.
# ### Simple Coding
# Like Treatment Coding, Simple Coding compares each level to a fixed
# reference level. However, with simple coding, the intercept is the grand
# mean of all the levels of the factors. Patsy does not have the Simple
# contrast included, but you can easily define your own contrasts. To do so,
# write a class that contains a code_with_intercept and a
# code_without_intercept method that returns a patsy.contrast.ContrastMatrix
# instance
from patsy.contrasts import ContrastMatrix
def _name_levels(prefix, levels):
return ["[%s%s]" % (prefix, level) for level in levels]
class Simple(object):
def _simple_contrast(self, levels):
nlevels = len(levels)
contr = -1.0 / nlevels * np.ones((nlevels, nlevels - 1))
contr[1:][np.diag_indices(nlevels - 1)] = (nlevels - 1.0) / nlevels
return contr
def code_with_intercept(self, levels):
contrast = np.column_stack(
(np.ones(len(levels)), self._simple_contrast(levels)))
return ContrastMatrix(contrast, _name_levels("Simp.", levels))
def code_without_intercept(self, levels):
contrast = self._simple_contrast(levels)
return ContrastMatrix(contrast, _name_levels("Simp.", levels[:-1]))
hsb2.groupby("race")["write"].mean().mean()
contrast = Simple().code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
mod = ols("write ~ C(race, Simple)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# ### Sum (Deviation) Coding
# Sum coding compares the mean of the dependent variable for a given level
# to the overall mean of the dependent variable over all the levels. That
# is, it uses contrasts between each of the first k-1 levels and level k In
# this example, level 1 is compared to all the others, level 2 to all the
# others, and level 3 to all the others.
from patsy.contrasts import Sum
contrast = Sum().code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
mod = ols("write ~ C(race, Sum)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# This corresponds to a parameterization that forces all the coefficients
# to sum to zero. Notice that the intercept here is the grand mean where the
# grand mean is the mean of means of the dependent variable by each level.
hsb2.groupby("race")["write"].mean().mean()
# ### Backward Difference Coding
# In backward difference coding, the mean of the dependent variable for a
# level is compared with the mean of the dependent variable for the prior
# level. This type of coding may be useful for a nominal or an ordinal
# variable.
from patsy.contrasts import Diff
contrast = Diff().code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
mod = ols("write ~ C(race, Diff)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# For example, here the coefficient on level 1 is the mean of `write` at
# level 2 compared with the mean at level 1. Ie.,
res.params["C(race, Diff)[D.1]"]
hsb2.groupby("race").mean()["write"][2] - hsb2.groupby(
"race").mean()["write"][1]
# ### Helmert Coding
# Our version of Helmert coding is sometimes referred to as Reverse
# Helmert Coding. The mean of the dependent variable for a level is compared
# to the mean of the dependent variable over all previous levels. Hence, the
# name 'reverse' being sometimes applied to differentiate from forward
# Helmert coding. This comparison does not make much sense for a nominal
# variable such as race, but we would use the Helmert contrast like so:
from patsy.contrasts import Helmert
contrast = Helmert().code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
mod = ols("write ~ C(race, Helmert)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# To illustrate, the comparison on level 4 is the mean of the dependent
# variable at the previous three levels taken from the mean at level 4
grouped = hsb2.groupby("race")
grouped.mean()["write"].loc[4] - grouped.mean()["write"].loc[:3].mean()
grouped.mean()["write"]
# As you can see, these are only equal up to a constant. Other versions of
# the Helmert contrast give the actual difference in means. Regardless, the
# hypothesis tests are the same.
k = 4
c4 = 1.0 / k * (grouped.mean()["write"].loc[k] -
grouped.mean()["write"].loc[:k - 1].mean())
k = 3
c3 = 1.0 / k * (grouped.mean()["write"].loc[k] -
grouped.mean()["write"].loc[:k - 1].mean())
print(c4, c3)
# ### Orthogonal Polynomial Coding
# The coefficients taken on by polynomial coding for `k=4` levels are the
# linear, quadratic, and cubic trends in the categorical variable. The
# categorical variable here is assumed to be represented by an underlying,
# equally spaced numeric variable. Therefore, this type of encoding is used
# only for ordered categorical variables with equal spacing. In general, the
# polynomial contrast produces polynomials of order `k-1`. Since `race` is
# not an ordered factor variable let's use `read` as an example. First we
# need to create an ordered categorical from `read`.
hsb2["readcat"] = np.asarray(pd.cut(hsb2.read, bins=4))
hsb2["readcat"] = hsb2["readcat"].astype(object)
hsb2.groupby("readcat").mean()["write"]
from patsy.contrasts import Poly
levels = hsb2.readcat.unique()
contrast = Poly().code_without_intercept(levels)
print(contrast.matrix)
mod = ols("write ~ C(readcat, Poly)", data=hsb2)
res = mod.fit()
print(res.summary())
# As you can see, readcat has a significant linear effect on the dependent
# variable `write` but the quadratic and cubic effects are insignificant.
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