[SciPy-User] scipy.stats.linregress

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This parameter is R**2, the square of R. You are computing it using the
squares of the residuals, so everything should be positive. If you get r
negative, something  has gone terribly wrong.
On Feb 12, 2013 8:59 AM, "Jerome Kieffer" <Jerome.Kieffer at esrf.fr> wrote:

>
> Dear Scipy Community,
>
> I am looking at the scipy.stats.linregress code and see:
>     # average sum of squares:
>     ssxm, ssxym, ssyxm, ssym = np.cov(x, y, bias=1).flat
>     r_num = ssxym
>     r_den = np.sqrt(ssxm*ssym)
>     if r_den == 0.0:
>         r = 0.0
>     else:
>         r = r_num / r_den
>         if (r > 1.0): r = 1.0 # from numerical error
>
> if the slope is negative, the correlation factor R is -1, not one so one
> should add:
>
>         if (r < -1.0): r = -1.0 # from numerical error
>
> or did I completely mis-understood the code ?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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