confidence and prediction intervals with StatsModels

Question

I do this linear regression with StatsModels:

import numpy as np
import statsmodels.api as sm
from statsmodels.sandbox.regression.p         


        

Answer 1

summary_frame and summary_table work well when you need exact results for a single quantile, but don't vectorize well. This will provide a normal approximation of the prediction interval (not confidence interval) and works for a vector of quantiles:

def ols_quantile(m, X, q):
  # m: Statsmodels OLS model.
  # X: X matrix of data to predict.
  # q: Quantile.
  #
  from scipy.stats import norm
  mean_pred = m.predict(X)
  se = np.sqrt(m.scale)
  return mean_pred + norm.ppf(q) * se