featuretools.primitives.Trend

class featuretools.primitives.Trend

Calculates the trend of a variable over time.

Description:

Given a list of values and a corresponding list of datetimes, calculate the slope of the linear trend of values.

Examples

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> trend = Trend()
>>> times = [datetime(2010, 1, 1, 11, 45, 0),
...          datetime(2010, 1, 1, 11, 55, 15),
...          datetime(2010, 1, 1, 11, 57, 30),
...          datetime(2010, 1, 1, 11, 12),
...          datetime(2010, 1, 1, 11, 12, 15)]
>>> round(trend([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], times), 3)
-0.053

__init__()

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__()	Initialize self.
generate_name(base_feature_names, …)
generate_names(base_feature_names, …)
get_args_string()
get_arguments()
get_dask_aggregation()
get_filepath(filename)
get_function()

Attributes

base_of
base_of_exclude
commutative
dask_compatible
default_value
input_types
max_stack_depth
name
number_output_features
stack_on
stack_on_exclude
stack_on_self
uses_calc_time