Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17494#discussion_r109143992
--- Diff: python/pyspark/ml/stat.py ---
@@ -71,6 +71,62 @@ def test(dataset, featuresCol, labelCol):
return _java2py(sc, javaTestObj.test(*args))
+class Correlation(object):
+ """
+ .. note:: Experimental
+
+ Compute the correlation matrix for the input dataset of Vectors using
the specified method.
+ Methods currently supported: `pearson` (default), `spearman`.
+
+ :param dataset:
+ A dataset or a dataframe.
+ :param column:
+ The name of the column of vectors for which the correlation
coefficient needs
+ to be computed. This must be a column of the dataset, and it must
contain
+ Vector objects.
+ :param method:
+ String specifying the method to use for computing correlation.
+ Supported: `pearson` (default), `spearman`.
+ :return:
+ A dataframe that contains the correlation matrix of the column of
vectors. This
+ dataframe contains a single row and a single column of name
+ '$METHODNAME($COLUMN)'.
+
+ >>> from pyspark.ml.linalg import Vectors
+ >>> from pyspark.ml.stat import Correlation
+ >>> dataset = [[Vectors.dense([1, 0, 0, -2])],
+ ... [Vectors.dense([4, 5, 0, 3])],
+ ... [Vectors.dense([6, 7, 0, 8])],
+ ... [Vectors.dense([9, 0, 0, 1])]]
+ >>> dataset = spark.createDataFrame(dataset, ["features"])
+ >>> pearsonCorr = Correlation.corr(dataset, 'features',
'pearson').collect()[0][0]
+ >>> print(str(pearsonCorr).replace('nan', 'NaN'))
--- End diff --
The test is mainly modified from mllib's old Correlation. I can't think why
it does the replacement except for better representation of the 'NaN' values.
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