如何在data.table中按十分位组计算统计数据

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我有一个data.table,想按组计算统计数据。

R) set.seed(1)
R) DT=data.table(a=rnorm(100),b=rnorm(100))

这些组应该由以下内容定义:

R) quantile(DT$a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1))
           10%            20%            30%            40%            50%            60%            70%            80%            90% 
-1.05265747329 -0.61386923071 -0.37534201964 -0.07670312896  0.11390916079  0.37707993057  0.58121734252  0.77125359976  1.18106507751 

如何计算每个箱子中b的平均值,例如如果b=-.5,则我在[-0.61386923071,-0.37534201964]范围内,因此在第3个箱子中。

2个回答

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怎么样呢:

> DT[, mean(b), keyby=cut(a,quantile(a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1)))]
                cut          V1
1:               NA -0.31359818
2:   (-1.05,-0.614] -0.14103182
3:  (-0.614,-0.375] -0.33474492
4: (-0.375,-0.0767]  0.20827735
5:  (-0.0767,0.114]  0.14890251
6:    (0.114,0.377]  0.16685304
7:    (0.377,0.581]  0.07086979
8:    (0.581,0.771]  0.17950572
9:     (0.771,1.18] -0.04951607

为了查看那个NA值(无论如何都要检查结果),我接下来执行了:

> DT[, list(mean(b),.N,list(a)), keyby=cut(a,quantile(a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1)))]
                cut          V1  N                                                                                                                      V3
1:               NA -0.31359818 20                1.59528080213779,1.51178116845085,-2.2146998871775,-1.98935169586337,-1.47075238389927,1.35867955152904,
2:   (-1.05,-0.614] -0.14103182 10        -0.626453810742332,-0.835628612410047,-0.820468384118015,-0.621240580541804,-0.68875569454952,-0.70749515696212,
3:  (-0.614,-0.375] -0.33474492 10        -0.47815005510862,-0.41499456329968,-0.394289953710349,-0.612026393250771,-0.443291873218433,-0.589520946188072,
4: (-0.375,-0.0767]  0.20827735 10      -0.305388387156356,-0.155795506705329,-0.102787727342996,-0.164523596253587,-0.253361680136508,-0.112346212150228,
5:  (-0.0767,0.114]  0.14890251 10 -0.0449336090152309,-0.0161902630989461,0.0745649833651906,-0.0561287395290008,-0.0538050405829051,-0.0593133967111857,
6:    (0.114,0.377]  0.16685304 10             0.183643324222082,0.329507771815361,0.36458196213683,0.341119691424425,0.188792299514343,0.153253338211898,
7:    (0.377,0.581]  0.07086979 10            0.487429052428485,0.575781351653492,0.389843236411431,0.417941560199702,0.387671611559369,0.556663198673657,
8:    (0.581,0.771]  0.17950572 10             0.738324705129217,0.593901321217509,0.61982574789471,0.763175748457544,0.696963375404737,0.768532924515416,
9:     (0.771,1.18] -0.04951607 10              1.12493091814311,0.943836210685299,0.821221195098089,0.918977371608218,0.782136300731067,1.10002537198388,

附注:我在那里返回了一个list列(每个单元格本身都是一个向量),以便快速查看进入桶中的值,只是为了检查。 data.table在打印时显示逗号(每个单元格仅显示前6个项目),但是那里的V3的每个单元格实际上都是数字向量。

因此,第一个和最后一个break之外的值被编码为NA。我不知道如何告诉cut不要这样做。所以我只添加了-Inf和+Inf:

> DT[,list(mean(b),.N),keyby=cut(a,c(-Inf,quantile(a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1)),+Inf))]
                 cut          V1  N
 1:     (-Inf,-1.05] -0.16938368 10
 2:   (-1.05,-0.614] -0.14103182 10
 3:  (-0.614,-0.375] -0.33474492 10
 4: (-0.375,-0.0767]  0.20827735 10
 5:  (-0.0767,0.114]  0.14890251 10
 6:    (0.114,0.377]  0.16685304 10
 7:    (0.377,0.581]  0.07086979 10
 8:    (0.581,0.771]  0.17950572 10
 9:     (0.771,1.18] -0.04951607 10
10:      (1.18, Inf] -0.45781268 10

好了,或者可以选择:

> DT[, list(mean(b),.N), keyby=cut(a,quantile(a,probs=seq(0,1,.1)),include=TRUE)]
                 cut          V1  N
 1:    [-2.21,-1.05] -0.16938368 10
 2:   (-1.05,-0.614] -0.14103182 10
 3:  (-0.614,-0.375] -0.33474492 10
 4: (-0.375,-0.0767]  0.20827735 10
 5:  (-0.0767,0.114]  0.14890251 10
 6:    (0.114,0.377]  0.16685304 10
 7:    (0.377,0.581]  0.07086979 10
 8:    (0.581,0.771]  0.17950572 10
 9:     (0.771,1.18] -0.04951607 10
10:       (1.18,2.4] -0.45781268 10

这样你就可以看到最小值和最大值,而不是显示为-Inf和+Inf。请注意,你需要在cut函数中传递参数include=TRUE,否则将返回11个bin,但第一个bin中只有1个数据。


我之前一直缺少那个cut命令!太棒了,这很完美...而且我从来没有用过keyby。 - statquant
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你为什么在这里使用 keyby 而不是 by - hadley
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@hadley 对于排序箱子。by= 根据首次出现的顺序返回分组。 - Matt Dowle
@MattDowle 当我运行 DT[, list(mean(b),.N,list(a)), keyby=cut(a,quantile(a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1)))] 时,我得到了 Error in setkeyv(ans, names(ans)[seq_along(byval)]) Item 4 of list is not a vector 的错误。然而其他三个命令都可以正常工作。如果我运行 DT[, list(mean(b),.N,paste0(as.character(a),collapse=",")), keyby=cut(a,quantile(a,probs=seq(.1,.9,.1)))] 那么就可以正常工作了。我在 R3.0.1 Win7 上运行 DT 1.9.2。这是怎么回事呢? - Dean MacGregor

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我经常做这种事情,所以我在我的R包mltools中编写了一个非常灵活的bin_data()方法。它完全基于data.table并利用了新的non-equi joins
为了回答你的具体问题,请将Bin1设置为DT中的一列,然后按Bin1进行分组。
library(data.table)
library(mltools)

DT[, Bin1 := bin_data(vals=a, bins=seq(.1, .9, .1), binType="quantile")]
DT[, list(mean(b)), keyby=Bin1]

                                        Bin1          V1
1:                                        NA -0.31359818
2:   [-1.05265747329296, -0.613869230708978) -0.14103182
3:  [-0.613869230708978, -0.375342019639661) -0.33474492
4: [-0.375342019639661, -0.0767031289639095)  0.20827735
5:  [-0.0767031289639095, 0.113909160788544)  0.14890251
6:    [0.113909160788544, 0.377079930573521)  0.16685304
7:    [0.377079930573521, 0.581217342522697)  0.07086979
8:    [0.581217342522697, 0.771253599758546)  0.17950572
9:      [0.771253599758546, 1.1810650775142] -0.04951607

您还可以做其他很酷的事情

按分位数将数据分成10个等间距箱

DT[, Bin2 := bin_data(vals=a, bins=10, binType="quantile")]
DT[, list(mean(b)), keyby=Bin2]

                                         Bin2          V1
 1:     [-2.2146998871775, -1.05265747329296) -0.16938368
 2:   [-1.05265747329296, -0.613869230708978) -0.14103182
 3:  [-0.613869230708978, -0.375342019639661) -0.33474492
 4: [-0.375342019639661, -0.0767031289639095)  0.20827735
 5:  [-0.0767031289639095, 0.113909160788544)  0.14890251
 6:    [0.113909160788544, 0.377079930573521)  0.16685304
 7:    [0.377079930573521, 0.581217342522697)  0.07086979
 8:    [0.581217342522697, 0.771253599758546)  0.17950572
 9:      [0.771253599758546, 1.1810650775142) -0.04951607
10:       [1.1810650775142, 2.40161776050478] -0.45781268

使最后一个边界左闭右开
DT[, Bin3 := bin_data(vals=a, bins=10, binType="quantile", boundaryType="lcro)")]  
DT[, list(mean(b)), keyby=Bin2]

 1:                                        NA  0.42510038
 2:     [-2.2146998871775, -1.05265747329296) -0.16938368
 3:   [-1.05265747329296, -0.613869230708978) -0.14103182
 4:  [-0.613869230708978, -0.375342019639661) -0.33474492
 5: [-0.375342019639661, -0.0767031289639095)  0.20827735
 6:  [-0.0767031289639095, 0.113909160788544)  0.14890251
 7:    [0.113909160788544, 0.377079930573521)  0.16685304
 8:    [0.377079930573521, 0.581217342522697)  0.07086979
 9:    [0.581217342522697, 0.771253599758546)  0.17950572
10:      [0.771253599758546, 1.1810650775142) -0.04951607
11:       [1.1810650775142, 2.40161776050478) -0.55591413

指定自己的显式分组(注意会返回空的分组)

bin_data(dt=DT, binCol="a", bins=seq(-5, 5, 1), returnDT=TRUE)

          Bin         a           b
  1: [-5, -4)        NA          NA
  2: [-4, -3)        NA          NA
  3: [-3, -2) -2.214700 -0.65069635
  4: [-2, -1) -1.989352 -0.17955653
  5: [-2, -1) -1.470752 -0.03763417
 ---                               
100:   [1, 2)  1.586833 -1.20808279
101:   [2, 3)  2.401618  0.42510038
102:   [2, 3)  2.172612  0.20753834
103:   [3, 4)        NA          NA
104:   [4, 5]        NA          NA

使用可变大小的垃圾桶。
bin_data(dt=DT, binCol="a", bins=data.table(LB=c(-5, 0, 1), RB=c(0, 1, Inf)), returnDT=TRUE)

          Bin            a           b
  1:  [-5, 0) -0.626453811 -0.62036668
  2:  [-5, 0) -0.835628612 -0.91092165
  3:  [-5, 0) -0.820468384  1.76728727
  4:  [-5, 0) -0.305388387  1.68217608
  5:  [-5, 0) -0.621240581  1.43228224
 ---                               
 95: [1, Inf]  2.172611670  0.20753834
 96: [1, Inf]  1.178086997  0.21992480
 97: [1, Inf]  1.063099837  1.46458731
 98: [1, Inf]  1.207867806  0.40201178
 99: [1, Inf]  1.160402616 -0.73174817
100: [1, Inf]  1.586833455 -1.20808279
          Bin            a           b

感谢@statquant,我构建它是为了解决一再出现的需求。请注意,它需要一些参数检查和错误处理,但只要您提供合理的输入,它就能正常工作。 - Ben
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我会使用它并提出建议/改进,通常我会添加一个“by”以便您可以进行子集划分,然后进行分组(我经常这样做,例如2014年、2015年等)。 - statquant
@ben。看起来很有趣。我会看一下mltools - Triamus

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