Variance Inflation Factor in Python

Question

I\'m trying to calculate the variance inflation factor (VIF) for each column in a simple dataset in python:

a b c d
1 2 4 4
1 2 6 3
2 3 7 4
3 2 8 5
4 1 9 4
         


        

Answer 1

For future comers to this thread (like me):

import numpy as np
import scipy as sp

a = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4]
b = [2, 2, 3, 2, 1]
c = [4, 6, 7, 8, 9]
d = [4, 3, 4, 5, 4]

ck = np.column_stack([a, b, c, d])
cc = sp.corrcoef(ck, rowvar=False)
VIF = np.linalg.inv(cc)
VIF.diagonal()

This code gives

array([22.95,  3.  , 12.95,  3.  ])

[EDIT]

In response to a comment, I tried to use DataFrame as much as possible (numpy is required to invert a matrix).

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

a = [1, 1, 2, 3, 4]
b = [2, 2, 3, 2, 1]
c = [4, 6, 7, 8, 9]
d = [4, 3, 4, 5, 4]

df = pd.DataFrame({'a':a,'b':b,'c':c,'d':d})
df_cor = df.corr()
pd.DataFrame(np.linalg.inv(df.corr().values), index = df_cor.index, columns=df_cor.columns)

The code gives

       a            b           c           d
a   22.950000   6.453681    -16.301917  -6.453681
b   6.453681    3.000000    -4.080441   -2.000000
c   -16.301917  -4.080441   12.950000   4.080441
d   -6.453681   -2.000000   4.080441    3.000000

The diagonal elements give VIF.