sklearn.preprocessing.power_transform

sklearn.preprocessing.power_transform(X, method='yeo-johnson', *, standardize=True, copy=True)

Power transforms are a family of parametric, monotonic transformations that are applied to make data more Gaussian-like. This is useful for modeling issues related to heteroscedasticity (non-constant variance), or other situations where normality is desired.

Currently, power_transform supports the Box-Cox transform and the Yeo-Johnson transform. The optimal parameter for stabilizing variance and minimizing skewness is estimated through maximum likelihood.

Box-Cox requires input data to be strictly positive, while Yeo-Johnson supports both positive or negative data.

By default, zero-mean, unit-variance normalization is applied to the transformed data.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

The data to be transformed using a power transformation.

method{‘yeo-johnson’, ‘box-cox’}, default=’yeo-johnson’

The power transform method. Available methods are:

• ‘yeo-johnson’ [1], works with positive and negative values

• ‘box-cox’ [2], only works with strictly positive values

Changed in version 0.23: The default value of the method parameter changed from ‘box-cox’ to ‘yeo-johnson’ in 0.23.

standardizebool, default=True

Set to True to apply zero-mean, unit-variance normalization to the transformed output.

copybool, default=True

Set to False to perform inplace computation during transformation.

Returns

X_transndarray of shape (n_samples, n_features)

The transformed data.

See also

PowerTransformer

Equivalent transformation with the Transformer API (e.g. as part of a preprocessing Pipeline).

quantile_transform

Maps data to a standard normal distribution with the parameter output_distribution='normal'.

Notes

NaNs are treated as missing values: disregarded in fit, and maintained in transform.

For a comparison of the different scalers, transformers, and normalizers, see examples/preprocessing/plot_all_scaling.py.

References

1

I.K. Yeo and R.A. Johnson, “A new family of power transformations to improve normality or symmetry.” Biometrika, 87(4), pp.954-959, (2000).

2

G.E.P. Box and D.R. Cox, “An Analysis of Transformations”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 26, 211-252 (1964).

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.preprocessing import power_transform
>>> data = [[1, 2], [3, 2], [4, 5]]
>>> print(power_transform(data, method='box-cox'))
[[-1.332... -0.707...]
 [ 0.256... -0.707...]
 [ 1.076...  1.414...]]

Warning

Risk of data leak. Do not use power_transform unless you know what you are doing. A common mistake is to apply it to the entire data before splitting into training and test sets. This will bias the model evaluation because information would have leaked from the test set to the training set. In general, we recommend using PowerTransformer within a Pipeline in order to prevent most risks of data leaking, e.g.: pipe = make_pipeline(PowerTransformer(), LogisticRegression()).