Python | numpy.cov() function (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 26 Jul, 2024

Covariance provides the measure of strength of correlation between two variable or more set of variables. The covariance matrix element Cij is the covariance of xi and xj. The element Cii is the variance of xi.

• If COV(xi, xj) = 0 then variables are uncorrelated
• If COV(xi, xj) > 0 then variables positively correlated
• If COV(xi, xj) < 0 then variables negatively correlated

**Syntax: numpy.cov(m, y=None, rowvar=True, bias=False, ddof=None, fweights=None, aweights=None)
**Parameters:
**m : [array_like] A 1D or 2D variables. variables are columns
**y : [array_like] It has the same form as that of m.
**rowvar : [bool, optional] If rowvar is True (default), then each row represents a variable, with observations in the columns. Otherwise, the relationship is transposed:
**bias : Default normalization is False. If bias is True it normalize the data points.
**ddof : If not None the default value implied by bias is overridden. Note that ddof=1 will return the unbiased estimate, even if both fweights and aweights are specified.
**fweights : fweight is 1-D array of integer frequency weights
**aweights : aweight is 1-D array of observation vector weights.
**Returns: It returns ndarray covariance matrix

**Example #1:

Python `

Python code to demonstrate the

use of numpy.cov

import numpy as np

x = np.array([[0, 3, 4], [1, 2, 4], [3, 4, 5]])

print("Shape of array:\n", np.shape(x))

print("Covariance matrix of x:\n", np.cov(x))

`

**Output:

Shape of array:
(3, 3)
Covariance matrix of x:
[[ 4.33333333 2.83333333 2. ]
[ 2.83333333 2.33333333 1.5 ]
[ 2. 1.5 1. ]]

**Example #2:

Python `

Python code to demonstrate the

use of numpy.cov

import numpy as np

x = [1.23, 2.12, 3.34, 4.5]

y = [2.56, 2.89, 3.76, 3.95]

find out covariance with respect columns

cov_mat = np.stack((x, y), axis = 0)

print(np.cov(cov_mat))

`

Output

[[ 2.03629167 0.9313 ] [ 0.9313 0.4498 ]]

**Example #3:

Python `

Python code to demonstrate the

use of numpy.cov

import numpy as np

x = [1.23, 2.12, 3.34, 4.5]

y = [2.56, 2.89, 3.76, 3.95]

find out covariance with respect rows

cov_mat = np.stack((x, y), axis = 1)

print("shape of matrix x and y:", np.shape(cov_mat))

print("shape of covariance matrix:", np.shape(np.cov(cov_mat)))

print(np.cov(cov_mat))

`

Output

shape of matrix x and y: (4, 2) shape of covariance matrix: (4, 4) [[ 0.88445 0.51205 0.2793 -0.36575] [ 0.51205 0.29645 0.1617 -0.21175] [ 0.2793 0.1617 0.0882 -0.1155 ] [-0.36575 -0.21175 -0.1155 0.15125]]