Say I have a vector ValsHR which looks like this:
valsHR=[78.8, 82.3, 91.0]
And I have a dataframe MainData
Age Patient HR
21 1 NaN
21 1 NaN
21 1 NaN
30 2 NaN
30 2 NaN
24 3 NaN
24 3 NaN
24 3 NaN
I want to fill the NaNs so that the first value in valsHR will only fill in the NaNs for patient 1, the second will fill the NaNs for patient 2 and the third will fill in for patient 3.
So far I've tried using this:
mainData['HR'] = mainData['HR'].fillna(ValsHR) but it fills all the NaNs with the first value in the vector.
I've also tried to use this:
mainData['HR'] = mainData.groupby('Patient').fillna(ValsHR) fills the NaNs with values that aren't in the valsHR vector at all.
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to do this?
Create dictionary by Patient values with missing values, map to original column and replace missing values only:
print (df)
Age Patient HR
0 21 1 NaN
1 21 1 NaN
2 21 1 NaN
3 30 2 100.0 <- value is not replaced
4 30 2 NaN
5 24 3 NaN
6 24 3 NaN
7 24 3 NaN
p = df.loc[df.HR.isna(), 'Patient'].unique()
valsHR = [78.8, 82.3, 91.0]
df['HR'] = df['HR'].fillna(df['Patient'].map(dict(zip(p, valsHR))))
print (df)
Age Patient HR
0 21 1 78.8
1 21 1 78.8
2 21 1 78.8
3 30 2 100.0
4 30 2 82.3
5 24 3 91.0
6 24 3 91.0
7 24 3 91.0
If some groups has no NaNs:
print (df)
Age Patient HR
0 21 1 NaN
1 21 1 NaN
2 21 1 NaN
3 30 2 100.0 <- group 2 is not replaced
4 30 2 100.0 <- group 2 is not replaced
5 24 3 NaN
6 24 3 NaN
7 24 3 NaN
p = df.loc[df.HR.isna(), 'Patient'].unique()
valsHR = [78.8, 82.3, 91.0]
df['HR'] = df['HR'].fillna(df['Patient'].map(dict(zip(p, valsHR))))
print (df)
Age Patient HR
0 21 1 78.8
1 21 1 78.8
2 21 1 78.8
3 30 2 100.0
4 30 2 100.0
5 24 3 82.3
6 24 3 82.3
7 24 3 82.3