This thread will cover methods of how you can calculate the mean of one series grouped by another series, this technique is useful as there are times when you group data by some categories and find it useful to calculate the mean with respect to other groups. We will discuss different techniques that can be used to calculate the mean, including the use of Pandas and NumPy libraries, and if you want to learn different techniques related to series, go through the following threads listed below:
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- Calculating series statistics.
- Computing autocorrelation of a numeric series.
- Filtering words from a series.
1. Using "groupby()" method:
- The
pd.groupby()
method in Pandas is a powerful function for grouping data based on one or more columns of a DataFrame and allowing to aggregate of the results. - In the example code below, we group a series
values
by another seriesfruits
, and then we find the mean of this grouped data using themean()
function.
2. Using NumPy library:
- In this example code, we have used a dictionary comprehension along with NumPy’s
np.unique()
function. - For every unique value in the series
fruits
, we have created a boolean mask usingfruits == key
and fetched values for that unique value. The mean is calculated on the fetched values (values[fruits == key]
) using themean()
function.
3. Using "pd.pivot_table()" method:
- The
pd.pivot_table()
method is used for creating a spreadsheet-style pivot table based on a Pandas DataFrame. It allows you to summarize and aggregate data based on one or more columns, and then display the results in a tabular format. - In this method, we have grouped the table by
fruits
series by specifying theindex
argument, and found the mean of thevalues
series which is specified in thevalues
argument.
4. Using "pd.crosstab()" method:
- The
pd.crosstab()
method is used for creating a cross-tabulation (or contingency table) based on two or more columns of a DataFrame. It allows you to count the number of occurrences of each combination of values in the columns, and then display the results in a tabular format. - The
index
argument is the column to be used as the row index, thecolumns
argument is the column to be used as the column index,values
is the column to be aggregated (optional), andaggfunc
is the aggregation function to be applied. - Since we only have two series in our dataframe, we have used
fruits
in bothindex
andcolumns
arguments.
5. Using list comprehension method:
- In this method, we iterate through all the unique values of series
fruits
using theunique()
function to get unique values. - Then, for each unique value, we get all values from series
values
using a boolean conditiondf['fruits'] == group
and find their mean using themean()
function.