I am trying to learn pandas but I have been puzzled with the following. I want to replace NaNs in a DataFrame with the row average. Hence something like df.fillna(df.mean(axis=1)) should work but for some reason it fails for me. Am I missing anything, is there something wrong with what I'm doing? Is it because its not implemented? see link here
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
pd.__version__
Out[44]:
'0.15.2'
In [45]:
df = pd.DataFrame()
df['c1'] = [1, 2, 3]
df['c2'] = [4, 5, 6]
df['c3'] = [7, np.nan, 9]
df
Out[45]:
c1 c2 c3
0 1 4 7
1 2 5 NaN
2 3 6 9
In [46]:
df.fillna(df.mean(axis=1))
Out[46]:
c1 c2 c3
0 1 4 7
1 2 5 NaN
2 3 6 9
However something like this looks to work fine
df.fillna(df.mean(axis=0))
Out[47]:
c1 c2 c3
0 1 4 7
1 2 5 8
2 3 6 9
As commented the axis argument to fillna is NotImplemented.
df.fillna(df.mean(axis=1), axis=1)
Note: this would be critical here as you don't want to fill in your nth columns with the nth row average.
For now you'll need to iterate through:
m = df.mean(axis=1)
for i, col in enumerate(df):
# using i allows for duplicate columns
# inplace *may* not always work here, so IMO the next line is preferred
# df.iloc[:, i].fillna(m, inplace=True)
df.iloc[:, i] = df.iloc[:, i].fillna(m)
print(df)
c1 c2 c3
0 1 4 7.0
1 2 5 3.5
2 3 6 9.0
An alternative is to fillna the transpose and then transpose, which may be more efficient...
df.T.fillna(df.mean(axis=1)).T