OMoment package calculates moments of statistical distributions (means, variances, covariance) in online or distributed settings for univariate and bivariate distributions.
- Suitable for large data – works well with numpy and Pandas and in distributed setting.
- Moments calculated from different parts of data can be easily combined or updated for new data (supports addition of results).
- Objects are lightweight, calculation is done in numpy if possible.
- Weights for data can be provided.
- Invalid values (NaNs, infinities are omitted by default).
Typical application is calculation of means and variances (or even correlation of two variables) of many chunks of data (corresponding to different groups or to different parts of the distributed data), the results can be analyzed on level of the groups or easily combined to get exact moments for the full dataset.
from omoment import OMeanVar
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
rng = np.random.default_rng(12354)
g = rng.integers(low=0, high=10, size=1000)
x = g + rng.normal(loc=0, scale=10, size=1000)
w = rng.exponential(scale=1, size=1000)
# calculate overall moments
OMeanVar.compute(x, w)
# should give: OMeanVar(mean=4.6, var=108, weight=1.08e+03)
# or calculate moments for every group
df = pd.DataFrame({'g': g, 'x': x, 'w': w})
omvs = df.groupby('g').apply(OMeanVar.of_frame, x='x', w='w')
# and combine group moments to obtain the same overall results
OMeanVar.combine(omvs)
# addition is also supported
omvs.loc[0] + omvs.loc[1]At the moment, univariate and bivariate distributions are supported. Bivariate distributions allow for fast linear regression with two variables (and constant) calculation. Even multivariate distributions can be efficiently processed in a similar fashion, so the support for them might be added in the future. Moments of multivariate distributions would also allow for linear regression estimation and other statistical methods (such as PCA or regularized regression) to be calculated in a single pass through large distributed datasets.
OMoment package aims for fast calculation of weighted distribution moments (mean and variance at the moment), great compatibility with numpy and pandas and suitability for distributed datasets (composability of results). I have not found a package that would satisfy this, even though similar packages indeed exist.
RunStats package calculates several moments of univariate distribution (including skewness and kurtosis) and a few other statistics (min and max) and the results can be combined together. In addition, it provides Regression object for bivariate statistics. It does not support weights and the calculation was more than 100x slower in my testing (admittedly I am not sure if I used cython support correctly).
import numpy as np
from omoment import OMeanVar
from runstats import Statistics
import time
rng = np.random.Generator(np.random.PCG64(12345))
x = rng.normal(size=1_000_000)
start = time.time()
omv = OMeanVar.compute(x)
end = time.time()
print(f'{end - start:.3g} seconds')
# 0.0146 seconds
start = time.time()
st = Statistics(x)
end = time.time()
print(f'{end - start:.3g} seconds')
# 2.83 secondsOpenAI Gym (or newly Gymnasium) provides similar functionality as a part of its normalization of observations and rewards (in gym.wrappers.normalize.RunningMeanStd). The functionality is fairly limited as it was developed for a particular use case, but the calculation is fast, and it is possible to compose the results. It does not support weights though.