How can I compare a Pandas Series to custom combined and default thresholds?

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I have a Pandas Series with four categories (A, B, C, D) and a threshold dictionary that specifies custom thresholds for some combined categories and a default threshold for all others. My goal is to apply the custom threshold when multiple categories are grouped together (e.g., A and B) and use the default threshold for any category not explicitly defined.

My Series is defined as follows:

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s1 = pd.Series({"A": 0.2, "B": 0.3, "C": 0.3, "D": 0.9})

The threshold dictionary is:

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threshold = {"custom": {"A, B": 0.6, "C": 0.3}, "default": 0.4}

I need to evaluate the thresholds as follows:

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s1[A] + s1[B] < threshold["custom"]["A,B"]   :: 0.2 + 0.3 < 0.6
s1[C] < threshold["custom"]["C"]      :: 0.3 < 0.3
s1[D] < threshold["default"]      :: 0.9 < 0.4

This should result in the following output:

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# A,B   True
# C    False
# D    False

I have managed to solve the subproblems separately:

To apply the default threshold, I reindexed and filled missing thresholds:

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aligned_threshold = (
    pd.Series(threshold.get("custom"))
    .reindex(s1.index)
    .fillna(threshold.get("default"))
)
# A    0.4
# B    0.4
# C    0.3
# D    0.4

and then compared:

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s1 < aligned_threshold
# A     True
# B     True
# C    False
# D    False
# dtype: bool

To combine categories for the custom thresholds:

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threshold_s = pd.Series(threshold.get("custom"))
s1_combined = pd.Series(index=threshold_s.index)
for category, threshold in threshold["custom"].items():
    s1_combined[category] = sum([s1.get(k, 0) for k in category.split(", ")])
# now s1_combined is:
# A,B    0.6
# C      0.3
s1_combined < threshold_s
# A,B     True
# C      False
# dtype: bool

However, this second approach loses category D.

How can I combine these approaches so that every category (or group) is compared against its appropriate threshold, resulting in the final Series:

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# A,B   True
# C    False
# D    False

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago

Below is one solution that constructs a new Series by first evaluating the custom (possibly combined) thresholds and then applying the default threshold for any remaining categories.

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import pandas as pd

# Input Series and threshold dictionary.
s1 = pd.Series({"A": 0.2, "B": 0.3, "C": 0.3, "D": 0.9})
threshold = {"custom": {"A, B": 0.6, "C": 0.3}, "default": 0.4}

# Dictionary to store the result.
result = {}

# Process custom thresholds.
# We also keep track of which categories have been used in custom thresholds.
custom_used = set()
for key, th_val in threshold["custom"].items():
    # Split the key into individual category names.
    cats = [cat.strip() for cat in key.split(",")]
    custom_used.update(cats)
    # Sum the values for the specified categories.
    combined_value = s1[cats].sum()
    result[key] = combined_value < th_val

# Process remaining categories using the default threshold.
default_th = threshold["default"]
for cat in s1.index:
    if cat not in custom_used:
        result[cat] = s1[cat] < default_th

# Create the final Series.
final_series = pd.Series(result)
print(final_series)

When you run this code, the output is:

A, B     True
C     False
D     False
dtype: bool

This solution first sums the values for categories A and B and compares the sum with the custom threshold 0.6. Then it compares category C with its custom threshold 0.3 and finally applies the default threshold 0.4 for category D.

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Answer by StellarTracker187 • 1 month ago

You could build a mapper to rename, then groupby.sum and compare to the reference thresholds:

mapper = {x: k for k in threshold['custom']
          for x in k.split(', ')}
# {'A': 'A, B', 'B': 'A, B', 'C': 'C'}

s2 = (s1.rename(mapper)
        .groupby(level=0).sum()
     )

out = s2.lt(s2.index.to_series()
               .map(threshold['custom'])           
               .fillna(threshold['default'])
           )

Alternative for the last step if you don't have NaNs:

out = s2.lt(s2.index.map(threshold['custom']).values,
            fill_value=threshold['default'])

Output:

A, B     True
C       False
D       False
dtype: bool

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