[Numpy-discussion] syntax for obtaining rank of two columns? (original) (raw)

Tim Hochberg tim.hochberg at cox.net
Thu Jun 15 20:27:42 EDT 2006


JJ wrote:

Hello. I am a matlab user learning the syntax of numpy. Id like to check that I am not missing some easy steps on column selection and concatenation. The example task is to determine if two columns selected out of an array are of full rank (rank 2). Lets say we have an array d that is size (10,10) and we select the ith and jth columns to test their rank. In matlab the command is quite simple:

rank([d(:,i),d(:,j)]) In numpy, the best I have thought of so far is: _linalg.lstsq(transpose(vstack((d[:,i],d[:,j]))), _ _ones((shape(transpose(vstack((d[:,i],d[:,j])))) _ [0],1),'d'))[2] Im thinking there must be a less awkward way. Any ideas? This isn't really my field, so this could be wrong, but try:

linalg.lstsq(d[:,[i,j]], ones_like(d[:,[i,j]]))[2]

and see if that works for you.

-tim

JJ


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