Re: [Tutor] Python OLS help

2016-06-01 Thread Michael Selik
You're welcome. A tip for the next bug: Google is pretty good at finding a discussion of the error if you paste the whole phrase as your search terms. In this case, I searched for "ValueError for numerical factors num_columns must be an int" and found the relevant Google Group thread. PS. I replie

Re: [Tutor] Python OLS help

2016-06-01 Thread Michael Selik
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:45 PM Vadim Katsemba wrote: > I typed in lm = smf.ols(formula='LATITUDE~DIAMETER',data=dataf).fit(), and > I ended up getting this error: ValueError: For numerical factors, > num_columns must be an int. > You may be using an old version of Patsy, the module that allows

Re: [Tutor] Python OLS help

2016-05-31 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 31/05/16 16:30, Vadim Katsemba wrote: > Hello there, I am having trouble running the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) > regression on Spyder. I had no idea what Spyder was but a Google search says its an IDE somewhat akin to matlab or IPython... It also has a discussion group: http://groups.googl

[Tutor] Python OLS help

2016-05-31 Thread Vadim Katsemba
Hello there, I am having trouble running the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression on Spyder. I typed in lm = smf.ols(formula='LATITUDE~DIAMETER',data=dataf).fit(), and I ended up getting this error: ValueError: For numerical factors, num_columns must be an int. How am I supposed to run the OLS,