I believe that I didn't communicate my problem completely. Your suggestion to flatten the matrix should help develop a solution. Now as I progress down the sorted list I need to detect when I have 25 complete solution sets.
My goal is to find a set of 25 where the highest collective covariance (within the 25 x 25 matrix) is the lowest. My concern is that this problem requires brut force permutation analysis. Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Kern Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:12 PM To: Discussion of Numerical Python Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Newbee question - looking to use Numpy to solve permutation problem Chris Toczycki wrote: > I am looking to find a solution to a problem and believe that Numpy may > help. I'd appreciate some advice and/or direction and I'll pursue from > there. > > The problem is that I am looking for a most efficient solution where I > have to select 25 solutions where the highest pair-covariance value is > the lowest of all possible 25 solution combinations. There are possible > 95 solutions to choose from and I have a 95 x 95 matrix of > pair-covariance values. I'll give you a brief sketch: * Write a function that will extract the upper-triangle (including the diagonal) into a flattened array. a[triu(ones((len(a),len(a)))).astype(bool)] is the one-liner. * Write a function that takes an index from this flattened array to the pair of (i,j) indices that correspond to the same element in the original matrix. * Flatten your covariance matrix with the first function, use argsort() to find the indices into the flattened array in ascending order, extract the first 25, and then use the second function to get the (i,j) pair that you are looking for. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
