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问题描述

因此,我查看了多种潜在的解决方案,但似乎都没有奏效。

基本上,我想在我的数据框中创建一个新列,它是多个其他列的平均值。我希望这个平均值排除 NaN 值,但即使行中有 NaN 值仍然计算平均值。

我有一个看起来像这样的数据框(但实际上是 Q222-229):

ID   Q1   Q2   Q3   Q4   Q5
1    4    NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN
2    5    7    8    NaN  NaN
3    7    1    2    NaN  NaN
4    2    2    3    4    1
5    1    3    NaN  NaN  NaN

我想创建一个列,它是 Q1、Q2、Q3、Q4、Q5 的平均值,即:

ID   Q1   Q2   Q3   Q4   Q5   avg_age
1    4    NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  4
2    5    7    8    NaN  NaN  5.5
3    7    1    2    NaN  NaN  3.5
4    2    2    3    4    1    2
5    1    3    NaN  NaN  NaN  2

(忽略值)

但是,我尝试过的每种方法都会在 avg_age 列中返回 NaN 值,这让我认为当忽略 NaN 值时,pandas 会忽略整行。但我不希望这种情况发生,而是希望返回平均值并忽略 NaN 值。

这是我到目前为止所尝试的:

1.
    avg_age = s.loc[: , "Q222":"Q229"]
    avg_age = avg_age.mean(axis=1)
    s = pd.concat([s, avg_age], axis=1)

2.
    s['avg_age'] = s[['Q222', 'Q223', 'Q224', 'Q225', 'Q226', 'Q227', 'Q228', 'Q229']].mean(axis=1)

3.

    avg_age = ['Q222', 'Q223', 'Q224', 'Q225', 'Q226', 'Q227', 'Q228', 'Q229']
    s.loc[:, 'avg_age'] = s[avg_age].mean(axis=1)

我不确定我最初对值进行编码的方式是否有问题,所以这是我的代码供参考:

#改变年龄变量输入

s['Q222'] = s['Q222'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q223'] = s['Q223'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q224'] = s['Q224'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q225'] = s['Q225'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q226'] = s['Q226'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q227'] = s['Q227'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q228'] = s['Q228'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])
s['Q229'] = s['Q229'].replace(['18-24', '25-34','35-44', '45-54','55-64', '65-74', '75 or older', "Don't know"],
                              ['2','3','4','5', '6', '7', '8', np.NaN])

s['Q222'] = s['Q222'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q223'] = s['Q223'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q224'] = s['Q224'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q225'] = s['Q225'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q226'] = s['Q226'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q227'] = s['Q227'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q228'] = s['Q228'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')
s['Q229'] = s['Q229'].replace(['0-4', '05-11', '12-15', '16-17'], '1')

提前感谢任何能够提供帮助的人!

标签: pythonpandasdataframemultiple-columnsmean

解决方案


skipna=True

可以使用 alist comprehension来获得平均列,并mean()使用:

df['ave_age'] = df[[col for col in df.columns if 'Q' in col]].mean(axis = 1,skipna = True)

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