MeanCenterer: column-based mean centering on a NumPy array

A transformer object that performs column-based mean centering on a NumPy array.

from mlxtend.preprocessing import MeanCenterer

Example 1 - Centering a NumPy Array

Use the fit method to fit the column means of a dataset (e.g., the training dataset) to a new MeanCenterer object. Then, call the transform method on the same dataset to center it at the sample mean.

import numpy as np
from mlxtend.preprocessing import MeanCenterer
X_train = np.array(
                   [[1, 2, 3],
                    [4, 5, 6],
                    [7, 8, 9]])
mc = MeanCenterer().fit(X_train)
mc.transform(X_train)

array([[-3., -3., -3.],
       [ 0.,  0.,  0.],
       [ 3.,  3.,  3.]])

API

MeanCenterer()

Column centering of vectors and matrices.

Attributes

• col_means : numpy.ndarray [n_columns]

  NumPy array storing the mean values for centering after fitting the MeanCenterer object.

Examples

For usage examples, please see https://rasbt.github.io/mlxtend/user_guide/preprocessing/MeanCenterer/

Methods

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fit(X)

Gets the column means for mean centering.

Parameters

• X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

  Array of data vectors, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

Returns

self

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fit_transform(X)

Fits and transforms an arry.

Parameters

• X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

  Array of data vectors, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

Returns

• X_tr : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

  A copy of the input array with the columns centered.

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transform(X)

Centers a NumPy array.

Parameters

• X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

  Array of data vectors, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

Returns

• X_tr : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

  A copy of the input array with the columns centered.

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