Edit: Basically solved I think.
I am using spearmanr from scipy.stats to find the correlations between variables across a number of different samples. I have around 2500 variables and 36 samples (or 'observations')
If I calculate the correlations using all 36 samples, spearmanr works fine. If I use only the first 18 samples it also works fine. However if I use the latter 18 samples I get an error and nans are returned.
This is the error:
/Home/s1215235/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/lib/function_base.py:1945: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in true_divide
return c / sqrt(multiply.outer(d, d))
/Home/s1215235/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1718: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in greater
cond1 = (scale > 0) & (x > self.a) & (x < self.b)
/Home/s1215235/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1718: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in less
cond1 = (scale > 0) & (x > self.a) & (x < self.b)
/Home/s1215235/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1719: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in less_equal
cond2 = cond0 & (x <= self.a)
This is the code:
populationdata = np.vstack(thing).astype(np.float)
rho, pval = stats.spearmanr(populationdata[:,sampleindexes], axis = 1)
(populationdata is a numpy array full of floats; [:,sampleindexes] allows only a few of the columns to be used.
And this is what rho is returned as:
[[ 1. nan nan ..., 1. -0.05882353
-0.08574929]
[ nan nan nan ..., nan nan
nan]
[ nan nan nan ..., nan nan
nan]
...,
[ 1. nan nan ..., 1. -0.05882353
-0.08574929]
[-0.05882353 nan nan ..., -0.05882353 1. 0.68599434]
[-0.08574929 nan nan ..., -0.08574929 0.68599434 1. ]]
解决方案
In a comment it was noted that "There are a lot of 0s though." So populationdata[:,sampleindexes] probably has rows that are all 0. That will cause spearmanr to generate nan. For example,
In [3]: spearmanr([[0, 0, 0], [1, 2, 3]], axis=1)
/Users/warren/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/lib/function_base.py:1957: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in true_divide
return c / sqrt(multiply.outer(d, d))
/Users/warren/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1728: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in greater
cond1 = (scale > 0) & (x > self.a) & (x < self.b)
/Users/warren/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1728: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in less
cond1 = (scale > 0) & (x > self.a) & (x < self.b)
/Users/warren/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_distn_infrastructure.py:1729: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in less_equal
cond2 = cond0 & (x <= self.a)
Out[3]: (nan, nan)