Confidence Interval in Python dataframe

Question

I am trying to calculate the mean and confidence interval(95%) of a column \"Force\" in a large dataset. I need the result by using the groupby function by grouping differen

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, I could not duplicate your error, but you can try to check that your numbers are stored as numbers and not as strings. use df.info() and make sure that the relevant columns are float or int:

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 6 entries, 0 to 5
Data columns (total 2 columns):
Class    6 non-null object   # <--- non-number column
Force    6 non-null int64    # <--- number (int) column
dtypes: int64(1), object(1)
memory usage: 176.0+ bytes

Answer 2

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import math

df=pd.DataFrame({'Class': ['A1','A1','A1','A2','A3','A3'], 
                 'Force': [50,150,100,120,140,160] },
                 columns=['Class', 'Force'])
print(df)
print('-'*30)

stats = df.groupby(['Class'])['Force'].agg(['mean', 'count', 'std'])
print(stats)
print('-'*30)

ci95_hi = []
ci95_lo = []

for i in stats.index:
    m, c, s = stats.loc[i]
    ci95_hi.append(m + 1.96*s/math.sqrt(c))
    ci95_lo.append(m - 1.96*s/math.sqrt(c))

stats['ci95_hi'] = ci95_hi
stats['ci95_lo'] = ci95_lo
print(stats)

The output is

  Class  Force
0    A1     50
1    A1    150
2    A1    100
3    A2    120
4    A3    140
5    A3    160
------------------------------
       mean  count        std
Class                        
A1      100      3  50.000000
A2      120      1        NaN
A3      150      2  14.142136
------------------------------
       mean  count        std     ci95_hi     ci95_lo
Class                                                
A1      100      3  50.000000  156.580326   43.419674
A2      120      1        NaN         NaN         NaN
A3      150      2  14.142136  169.600000  130.400000