python - Python 在大型数组的 np.std 实现中是否存在错误？

Question

我正在尝试通过 np.std(array,ddof = 0) 计算方差。如果我碰巧有一个长增量数组，即数组中的所有值都相同，问题就会出现。它没有返回 std = 0，而是给出了一些小值，这反过来会导致进一步的估计错误。均值正确返回...示例:

np.std([0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1],ddof = 0)

给出 1.80411241502e-16

但是

np.std([0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1],ddof = 0)

给出标准 = 0

有没有办法克服这个问题，除了现在根本不计算 std 就检查每次迭代的数据的唯一性？

谢谢

附言在标记为重复 Is floating point math broken? 之后, 复制粘贴 @kxr 关于为什么这是一个不同问题的回复:

“当前的重复标记是错误的。它不仅仅是关于简单的 float 比较，而是关于通过在长数组上使用 np.std 来实现接近零结果的小错误的内部聚合——正如提问者所指出的那样。比较例如 >>> np.std([0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1]*200000) -> 2.0808632594793153e-12 。所以他可以例如解决: >>> 意思= a.mean(); xmean = round(mean, int(-log10(mean)+9)); std = np.sqrt(((a - xmean) ** 2).sum()/a.size) ”

问题当然始于 float 表示，但并不止于此。@kxr - 我很欣赏评论和示例

Answer 1

欢迎来到实用数值算法的世界!在现实生活中，如果你有两个 float x 和 y，检查 x == y 是没有意义的。因此，标准偏差是否为 0 的问题没有任何意义，它接近或不接近。让我们使用 np.isclose 检查一下

import numpy as np

>>> np.isclose(1.80411241502e-16, 0)
True

这就是您所能期望的最好的效果。在现实生活中，您甚至无法像您建议的那样检查所有元素是否相同。它们是 float 吗？它们是由其他一些过程产生的吗？他们也会有小错误。