Python 2.7 - statsmodels - formatting and writing summary output

Question

I'm doing logistic regression using pandas 0.11.0(data handling) and statsmodels 0.4.3 to do the actual regression, on Mac OSX Lion.

I'm going to be running ~2,900 different logistic regression models and need the results output to csv file and formatted in a particular way.

Currently, I'm only aware of doing print result.summary() which prints the results (as follows) to the shell:

 Logit Regression Results                           
  ==============================================================================
 Dep. Variable:            death_death   No. Observations:                 9752
 Model:                          Logit   Df Residuals:                     9747
 Method:                           MLE   Df Model:                            4
 Date:                Wed, 22 May 2013   Pseudo R-squ.:                -0.02672
 Time:                        22:15:05   Log-Likelihood:                -5806.9
 converged:                       True   LL-Null:                       -5655.8
                                         LLR p-value:                     1.000
 ===============================================================================
                   coef    std err          z      P>|z|      [95.0% Conf. Int.]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 age_age5064    -0.1999      0.055     -3.619      0.000        -0.308    -0.092
 age_age6574    -0.2553      0.053     -4.847      0.000        -0.359    -0.152
 sex_female     -0.2515      0.044     -5.765      0.000        -0.337    -0.166
 stage_early    -0.1838      0.041     -4.528      0.000        -0.263    -0.104
 access         -0.0102      0.001    -16.381      0.000        -0.011    -0.009
 ===============================================================================

I will also need the odds ratio, which is computed by print np.exp(result.params), and is printed in the shell as such:

age_age5064    0.818842
age_age6574    0.774648
sex_female     0.777667
stage_early    0.832098
access         0.989859
dtype: float64

What I need is for these each to be written to a csv file in form of a very lon row like (am not sure, at this point, whether I will need things like Log-Likelihood, but have included it for the sake of thoroughness):

`Log-Likelihood, age_age5064_coef, age_age5064_std_err, age_age5064_z, age_age5064_p>|z|,...age_age6574_coef, age_age6574_std_err, ......access_coef, access_std_err, ....age_age5064_odds_ratio, age_age6574_odds_ratio, ...sex_female_odds_ratio,.....access_odds_ratio`

I think you get the picture - a very long row, with all of these actual values, and a header with all the column designations in a similar format.

I am familiar with the csv module in Python, and am becoming more familiar with pandas. Not sure whether this info could be formatted and stored in a pandas dataframe and then written, using to_csv to a file once all ~2,900 logistic regression models have completed; that would certainly be fine. Also, writing them as each model is completed is also fine (using csv module).

UPDATE:

So, I was looking more at statsmodels site, specifically trying to figure out how the results of a model are stored within classes. It looks like there is a class called 'Results', which will need to be used. I think using inheritance from this class to create another class, where some of the methods/operators get changed might be the way to go, in order to get the formatting I require. I have very little experience in the ways of doing this, and will need to spend quite a bit of time figuring this out (which is fine). If anybody can help/has more experience that would be awesome!

Here is the site where the classes are laid out: statsmodels results class

Answer 1

There is no premade table of parameters and their result statistics currently available.

Essentially you need to stack all the results yourself, whether in a list, numpy array or pandas DataFrame depends on what's more convenient for you.

for example, if I want one numpy array that has the results for a model, llf and results in the summary parameter table, then I could use

res_all = []
for res in results:
    low, upp = res.confint().T   # unpack columns 
    res_all.append(numpy.concatenate(([res.llf], res.params, res.tvalues, res.pvalues, 
                   low, upp)))

But it might be better to align with pandas, depending on what structure you have across models.

You could write a helper function that takes all the results from the results instance and concatenates them in a row.

(I'm not sure what's the most convenient for writing to csv by rows)

edit:

Here is an example storing the regression results in a dataframe

https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/blob/master/statsmodels/sandbox/multilinear.py#L21

the loop is on line 159.

summary() and similar code outside of statsmodels, for example http://johnbeieler.org/py_apsrtable/ for combining several results, is oriented towards printing and not to store variables.