sklearn.preprocessing.robust_scale

sklearn.preprocessing.robust_scale(X, axis=0, with_centering=True, with_scaling=True, copy=True)

Standardize a dataset along any axis

Center to the median and component wise scale according to the interquartile range.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters:

X : array-like

The data to center and scale.

axis : int (0 by default)

axis used to compute the medians and IQR along. If 0, independently scale each feature, otherwise (if 1) scale each sample.

with_centering : boolean, True by default

If True, center the data before scaling.

with_scaling : boolean, True by default

If True, scale the data to unit variance (or equivalently, unit standard deviation).

copy : boolean, optional, default is True

set to False to perform inplace row normalization and avoid a copy (if the input is already a numpy array or a scipy.sparse CSR matrix and if axis is 1).

See also

sklearn.preprocessing.RobustScaler, scaling, sklearn.pipeline.Pipeline

Notes

This implementation will refuse to center scipy.sparse matrices since it would make them non-sparse and would potentially crash the program with memory exhaustion problems.

Instead the caller is expected to either set explicitly with_centering=False (in that case, only variance scaling will be performed on the features of the CSR matrix) or to call X.toarray() if he/she expects the materialized dense array to fit in memory.

To avoid memory copy the caller should pass a CSR matrix.