hypothesis 6.100.1
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Released: Apr 8, 2024
A library for property-based testing
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Author: David R. MacIver and Zac Hatfield-Dodds
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Requires: Python >=3.8
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Hypothesis is an advanced testing library for Python. It lets you write tests which are parametrized by a source of examples, and then generates simple and comprehensible examples that make your tests fail. This lets you find more bugs in your code with less work.
Hypothesis is extremely practical and advances the state of the art of unit testing by some way. It’s easy to use, stable, and powerful. If you’re not using Hypothesis to test your project then you’re missing out.
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Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.
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Hypothesis is a family of testing libraries which let you write tests parametrized by a source of examples. A Hypothesis implementation then generates simple and comprehensible examples that make your tests fail. This simplifies writing your tests and makes them more powerful at the same time, by letting software automate the boring bits and do them to a higher standard than a human would, freeing you to focus on the higher level test logic.
This sort of testing is often called "property-based testing", and the most widely known implementation of the concept is the Haskell library QuickCheck , but Hypothesis differs significantly from QuickCheck and is designed to fit idiomatically and easily into existing styles of testing that you are used to, with absolutely no familiarity with Haskell or functional programming needed.
Hypothesis for Python is the original implementation, and the only one that is currently fully production ready and actively maintained.
Hypothesis for Other Languages
The core ideas of Hypothesis are language agnostic and in principle it is suitable for any language. We are interested in developing and supporting implementations for a wide variety of languages, but currently lack the resources to do so, so our porting efforts are mostly prototypes.
The two prototype implementations of Hypothesis for other languages are:
- Hypothesis for Ruby is a reasonable start on a port of Hypothesis to Ruby.
- Hypothesis for Java is a prototype written some time ago. It's far from feature complete and is not under active development, but was intended to prove the viability of the concept.
Additionally there is a port of the core engine of Hypothesis, Conjecture, to Rust. It is not feature complete but in the long run we are hoping to move much of the existing functionality to Rust and rebuild Hypothesis for Python on top of it, greatly lowering the porting effort to other languages.
Any or all of these could be turned into full fledged implementations with relatively little effort (no more than a few months of full time work), but as well as the initial work this would require someone prepared to provide or fund ongoing maintenance efforts for them in order to be viable.
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Your Data Guide
How to Perform Hypothesis Testing Using Python
Step into the intriguing world of hypothesis testing, where your natural curiosity meets the power of data to reveal truths!
This article is your key to unlocking how those everyday hunches—like guessing a group’s average income or figuring out who owns their home—can be thoroughly checked and proven with data.
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I am going to take you by the hand and show you, in simple steps, how to use Python to explore a hypothesis about the average yearly income.
By the time we’re done, you’ll not only get the hang of creating and testing hypotheses but also how to use statistical tests on actual data.
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What is a hypothesis, and how do you test it?
A hypothesis is like a guess or prediction about something specific, such as the average income or the percentage of homeowners in a group of people.
It’s based on theories, past observations, or questions that spark our curiosity.
For instance, you might predict that the average yearly income of potential customers is over $50,000 or that 60% of them own their homes.
To see if your guess is right, you gather data from a smaller group within the larger population and check if the numbers ( like the average income, percentage of homeowners, etc. ) from this smaller group match your initial prediction.
You also set a rule for how sure you need to be to trust your findings, often using a 5% chance of error as a standard measure . This means you’re 95% confident in your results. — Level of Significance (0.05)
There are two main types of hypotheses : the null hypothesi s, which is your baseline saying there’s no change or difference, and the alternative hypothesis , which suggests there is a change or difference.
For example,
If you start with the idea that the average yearly income of potential customers is $50,000,
The alternative could be that it’s not $50,000—it could be less or more, depending on what you’re trying to find out.
To test your hypothesis, you calculate a test statistic —a number that shows how much your sample data deviates from what you predicted.
How you calculate this depends on what you’re studying and the kind of data you have. For example, to check an average, you might use a formula that considers your sample’s average, the predicted average, the variation in your sample data, and how big your sample is.
This test statistic follows a known distribution ( like the t-distribution or z-distribution ), which helps you figure out the p-value.
The p-value tells you the odds of seeing a test statistic as extreme as yours if your initial guess was correct.
A small p-value means your data strongly disagrees with your initial guess.
Finally, you decide on your hypothesis by comparing the p-value to your error threshold.
If the p-value is smaller or equal, you reject the null hypothesis, meaning your data shows a significant difference that’s unlikely due to chance.
If the p-value is larger, you stick with the null hypothesis , suggesting your data doesn’t show a meaningful difference and any change might just be by chance.
We’ll go through an example that tests if the average annual income of prospective customers exceeds $50,000.
This process involves stating hypotheses , specifying a significance level , collecting and analyzing data , and drawing conclusions based on statistical tests.
Example: Testing a Hypothesis About Average Annual Income
Step 1: state the hypotheses.
Null Hypothesis (H0): The average annual income of prospective customers is $50,000.
Alternative Hypothesis (H1): The average annual income of prospective customers is more than $50,000.
Step 2: Specify the Significance Level
Significance Level: 0.05, meaning we’re 95% confident in our findings and allow a 5% chance of error.
Step 3: Collect Sample Data
We’ll use the ProspectiveBuyer table, assuming it's a random sample from the population.
This table has 2,059 entries, representing prospective customers' annual incomes.
Step 4: Calculate the Sample Statistic
In Python, we can use libraries like Pandas and Numpy to calculate the sample mean and standard deviation.
SampleMean: 56,992.43
SampleSD: 32,079.16
SampleSize: 2,059
Step 5: Calculate the Test Statistic
We use the t-test formula to calculate how significantly our sample mean deviates from the hypothesized mean.
Python’s Scipy library can handle this calculation:
T-Statistic: 4.62
Step 6: Calculate the P-Value
The p-value is already calculated in the previous step using Scipy's ttest_1samp function, which returns both the test statistic and the p-value.
P-Value = 0.0000021
Step 7: State the Statistical Conclusion
We compare the p-value with our significance level to decide on our hypothesis:
Since the p-value is less than 0.05, we reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative.
Conclusion:
There’s strong evidence to suggest that the average annual income of prospective customers is indeed more than $50,000.
This example illustrates how Python can be a powerful tool for hypothesis testing, enabling us to derive insights from data through statistical analysis.
How to Choose the Right Test Statistics
Choosing the right test statistic is crucial and depends on what you’re trying to find out, the kind of data you have, and how that data is spread out.
Here are some common types of test statistics and when to use them:
T-test statistic:
This one’s great for checking out the average of a group when your data follows a normal distribution or when you’re comparing the averages of two such groups.
The t-test follows a special curve called the t-distribution . This curve looks a lot like the normal bell curve but with thicker ends, which means more chances for extreme values.
The t-distribution’s shape changes based on something called degrees of freedom , which is a fancy way of talking about your sample size and how many groups you’re comparing.
Z-test statistic:
Use this when you’re looking at the average of a normally distributed group or the difference between two group averages, and you already know the standard deviation for all in the population.
The z-test follows the standard normal distribution , which is your classic bell curve centered at zero and spreading out evenly on both sides.
Chi-square test statistic:
This is your go-to for checking if there’s a difference in variability within a normally distributed group or if two categories are related.
The chi-square statistic follows its own distribution, which leans to the right and gets its shape from the degrees of freedom —basically, how many categories or groups you’re comparing.
F-test statistic:
This one helps you compare the variability between two groups or see if the averages of more than two groups are all the same, assuming all groups are normally distributed.
The F-test follows the F-distribution , which is also right-skewed and has two types of degrees of freedom that depend on how many groups you have and the size of each group.
In simple terms, the test you pick hinges on what you’re curious about, whether your data fits the normal curve, and if you know certain specifics, like the population’s standard deviation.
Each test has its own special curve and rules based on your sample’s details and what you’re comparing.
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Statistical Hypothesis Testing: A Comprehensive Guide
We’ve all heard it – “ go to college to get a good job .” The assumption is that higher education leads straight to higher incomes. Elite Indian institutes like the IITs and IIMs are even judged based on the average starting salaries of their graduates. But is this direct connection between schooling and income actually true?
Intuitively, it seems believable. But how can we really prove this assumption that more school = more money? Is there hard statistical evidence either way? Turns out, there are methods to scientifically test widespread beliefs like this – what statisticians call hypothesis testing.
In this article, we’ll dig into the concept of hypothesis testing and the tools to rigorously question conventional wisdom: null and alternate hypotheses, one and two-tailed tests, paired sample tests, and more.
Statistical hypothesis testing allows researchers to make inferences about populations based on sample data. It involves setting up a null hypothesis, choosing a confidence level, calculating a p-value, and conducting tests such as two-tailed, one-tailed, or paired sample tests to draw conclusions.
What is Hypothesis Testing?
Statistical Hypothesis Testing is a method used to make inferences about a population based on sample data. Before we move ahead and understand what Hypothesis Testing is, we need to understand some basic terms.
Null Hypothesis
The Null Hypothesis is generally where we start our journey. Null Hypotheses are statements that are generally accepted or statements that you want to challenge. Since it is generally accepted that income level is positively correlated with quality of education, this will be our Null Hypothesis. It is denoted by H 0 .
H 0 : Income levels are positively correlated with quality of education.
Alternate Hypothesis
The Alternate Hypothesis is the opposite of the Null hypothesis. An alternate Hypothesis is what we want to prove as a researcher and is not generally accepted by society. An alternate hypothesis is denoted H a . The alternate hypothesis of the above is given below.
H a : Income levels are negatively correlated with the quality of education.
Confidence Level (1- α )
Confidence Levels represent the probability that the range of values contains the true parameter value. The most common confidence levels are 95% and 99%. It can be interpreted that our test is 95% accurate if our confidence level is 95%. It is denoted by 1-α.
p-value ( p )
The p-value represents the probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct. A lower p-value means fewer chances for our observed result to happen. If our p-value is less than α , our null hypothesis is rejected, otherwise null hypothesis is accepted.
Types of Hypothesis Tests
Since we are equipped with the basic terms, let’s go ahead and conduct some hypothesis tests.
Conducting a Two-Tailed Hypothesis Test
In a two-tailed hypothesis test, our analysis can go in either direction i.e. either more than or less than our observed value. For example, a medical researcher testing out the effects of a placebo wants to know whether it increases or decreases blood pressure. Let’s look at its Python implementation.
In the above code, we want to know if the group study method is an effective way to study or not. Therefore our null and alternate hypotheses are as follows.
- H 0 : The Group study method is not an effective way to study .
- H a : The group study method is an effective way to study .
Since the p-value is greater than α , we fail to reject the null hypothesis. Therefore the group study method is not an effective way to study.
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In a one-tailed hypothesis test, we have certain expectations in which way our observed value will move i.e. higher or lower. For example, our researchers want to know if a particular medicine lowers our cholesterol level. Let’s look at its Python code.
Here our null and alternate hypothesis tests are given below.
- H 0 : The Group study method does not increase our marks.
- H a : The group study method increases our marks.
Since the p-value is greater than α , we fail to reject the null hypothesis. Therefore the group study method does not increase our marks.
A paired sample test compares two sets of observations and then provides us with a conclusion. For example, we need to know whether the reaction time of our participants increases after consuming caffeine. Let’s look at another example with a Python code as well.
Similar to the above hypothesis tests, we consider the group study method here as well. Our null and alternate hypotheses are as follows.
- H 0 : The group study method does not provide us with significant differences in our scores.
- H a : The group study method gives us significant differences in our scores.
Since the p-value is greater than α , we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Here you go! Now you are equipped to perform statistical hypothesis testing on different samples and draw out different conclusions. You need to collect data and decide on null and alternate hypotheses. Furthermore, based on the predetermined hypothesis, you need to decide on which type of test to perform. Statistical hypothesis testing is one of the most powerful tools in the world of research.
Now that you have a grasp on statistical hypothesis testing, how will you apply these concepts to your own research or data analysis projects? What hypotheses are you eager to test?
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What is hypothesis testing.
Hypothesis testing is an essential part in inferential statistics where we use observed data in a sample to draw conclusions about unobserved data - often the population.
Implication of hypothesis testing:
clinical research: widely used in psychology, biology and healthcare research to examine the effectiveness of clinical trials
A/B testing: can be applied in business context to improve conversions through testing different versions of campaign incentives, website designs ...
feature selection in machine learning: filter-based feature selection methods use different statistical tests to determine the feature importance
college or university: well, if you major in statistics or data science, it is likely to appear in your exams
For a brief video walkthrough along with the blog, check out my YouTube channel.
4 Steps in Hypothesis testing
Step 1. define null and alternative hypothesis.
Null hypothesis (H0) can be stated differently depends on the statistical tests, but generalize to the claim that no difference, no relationship or no dependency exists between two or more variables.
Alternative hypothesis (H1) is contradictory to the null hypothesis and it claims that relationships exist. It is the hypothesis that we would like to prove right. However, a more conservational approach is favored in statistics where we always assume null hypothesis is true and try to find evidence to reject the null hypothesis.
Step 2. Choose the appropriate test
Common Types of Statistical Testing including t-tests, z-tests, anova test and chi-square test
T-test: compare two groups/categories of numeric variables with small sample size
Z-test: compare two groups/categories of numeric variables with large sample size
ANOVA test: compare the difference between two or more groups/categories of numeric variables
Chi-Squared test: examine the relationship between two categorical variables
Correlation test: examine the relationship between two numeric variables
Step 3. Calculate the p-value
How p value is calculated primarily depends on the statistical testing selected. Firstly, based on the mean and standard deviation of the observed sample data, we are able to derive the test statistics value (e.g. t-statistics, f-statistics). Then calculate the probability of getting this test statistics given the distribution of the null hypothesis, we will find out the p-value. We will use some examples to demonstrate this in more detail.
Step 4. Determine the statistical significance
p value is then compared against the significance level (also noted as alpha value) to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. The significance level is a predetermined probability threshold - commonly 0.05. If p value is larger than the threshold, it means that the value is likely to occur in the distribution when the null hypothesis is true. On the other hand, if lower than significance level, it means it is very unlikely to occur in the null hypothesis distribution - hence reject the null hypothesis.
Hypothesis Testing with Examples
Kaggle dataset “ Customer Personality Analysis” is used in this case study to demonstrate different types of statistical test. T-test, ANOVA and Chi-Square test are sensitive to large sample size, and almost certainly will generate very small p-value when sample size is large . Therefore, I took a random sample (size of 100) from the original data:
T-test is used when we want to test the relationship between a numeric variable and a categorical variable.There are three main types of t-test.
one sample t-test: test the mean of one group against a constant value
two sample t-test: test the difference of means between two groups
paired sample t-test: test the difference of means between two measurements of the same subject
For example, if I would like to test whether “Recency” (the number of days since customer’s last purchase - numeric value) contributes to the prediction of “Response” (whether the customer accepted the offer in the last campaign - categorical value), I can use a two sample t-test.
The first sample would be the “Recency” of customers who accepted the offer:
The second sample would be the “Recency” of customers who rejected the offer:
To compare the “Recency” of these two groups intuitively, we can use histogram (or distplot) to show the distributions.
It appears that positive response have lower Recency compared to negative response. To quantify the difference and make it more scientific, let’s follow the steps in hypothesis testing and carry out a t-test.
Step1. define null and alternative hypothesis
null: there is no difference in Recency between the customers who accepted the offer in the last campaign and who did not accept the offer
alternative: customers who accepted the offer has lower Recency compared to customers who did not accept the offer
Step 2. choose the appropriate test
To test the difference between two independent samples, two-sample t-test is the most appropriate statistical test which follows student t-distribution. The shape of student-t distribution is determined by the degree of freedom, calculated as the sum of two sample size minus 2.
In python, simply import the library scipy.stats and create the t-distribution as below.
Step 3. calculate the p-value
There are some handy functions in Python calculate the probability in a distribution. For any x covered in the range of the distribution, pdf(x) is the probability density function of x — which can be represented as the orange line below, and cdf(x) is the cumulative density function of x — which can be seen as the cumulative area. In this example, we are testing the alternative hypothesis that — Recency of positive response minus the Recency of negative response is less than 0. Therefore we should use a one-tail test and compare the t-statistics we get against the lowest value in this distribution — therefore p-value can be calculated as cdf(t_statistics) in this case.
ttest_ind() is a handy function for independent t-test in python that has done all of these for us automatically. Pass two samples rececency_P and recency_N as the parameters, and we get the t-statistics and p-value.
Here I use plotly to visualize the p-value in t-distribution. Hover over the line and see how point probability and p-value changes as the x shifts. The area with filled color highlights the p-value we get for this specific test.
Check out the code in our Code Snippet section, if you want to build this yourself.
An interactive visualization of t-distribution with t-statistics vs. significance level.
Step 4. determine the statistical significance
The commonly used significance level threshold is 0.05. Since p-value here (0.024) is smaller than 0.05, we can say that it is statistically significant based on the collected sample. A lower Recency of customer who accepted the offer is likely not occur by chance. This indicates the feature “Response” may be a strong predictor of the target variable “Recency”. And if we would perform feature selection for a model predicting the "Recency" value, "Response" is likely to have high importance.
Now that we know t-test is used to compare the mean of one or two sample groups. What if we want to test more than two samples? Use ANOVA test.
ANOVA examines the difference among groups by calculating the ratio of variance across different groups vs variance within a group . Larger ratio indicates that the difference across groups is a result of the group difference rather than just random chance.
As an example, I use the feature “Kidhome” for the prediction of “NumWebPurchases”. There are three values of “Kidhome” - 0, 1, 2 which naturally forms three groups.
Firstly, visualize the data. I found box plot to be the most aligned visual representation of ANOVA test.
It appears there are distinct differences among three groups. So let’s carry out ANOVA test to prove if that’s the case.
1. define hypothesis:
null hypothesis: there is no difference among three groups
alternative hypothesis: there is difference between at least two groups
2. choose the appropriate test: ANOVA test for examining the relationships of numeric values against a categorical value with more than two groups. Similar to t-test, the null hypothesis of ANOVA test also follows a distribution defined by degrees of freedom. The degrees of freedom in ANOVA is determined by number of total samples (n) and the number of groups (k).
dfn = n - 1
dfd = n - k
3. calculate the p-value: To calculate the p-value of the f-statistics, we use the right tail cumulative area of the f-distribution, which is 1 - rv.cdf(x).
To easily get the f-statistics and p-value using Python, we can use the function stats.f_oneway() which returns p-value: 0.00040.
An interactive visualization of f-distribution with f-statistics vs. significance level. (Check out the code in our Code Snippet section, if you want to build this yourself. )
4. determine the statistical significance : Compare the p-value against the significance level 0.05, we can infer that there is strong evidence against the null hypothesis and very likely that there is difference in “NumWebPurchases” between at least two groups.
Chi-Squared Test
Chi-Squared test is for testing the relationship between two categorical variables. The underlying principle is that if two categorical variables are independent, then one categorical variable should have similar composition when the other categorical variable change. Let’s look at the example of whether “Education” and “Response” are independent.
First, use stacked bar chart and contingency table to summary the count of each category.
If these two variables are completely independent to each other (null hypothesis is true), then the proportion of positive Response and negative Response should be the same across all Education groups. It seems like composition are slightly different, but is it significant enough to say there is dependency - let’s run a Chi-Squared test.
null hypothesis: “Education” and “Response” are independent to each other.
alternative hypothesis: “Education” and “Response” are dependent to each other.
2. choose the appropriate test: Chi-Squared test is chosen and you probably found a pattern here, that Chi-distribution is also determined by the degree of freedom which is (row - 1) x (column - 1).
3. calculate the p-value: p value is calculated as the right tail cumulative area: 1 - rv.cdf(x).
Python also provides a useful function to get the chi statistics and p-value given the contingency table.
An interactive visualization of chi-distribution with chi-statistics vs. significance level. (Check out the code in our Code Snippet section, if you want to build this yourself. )
4. determine the statistical significanc e: the p-value here is 0.41, suggesting that it is not statistical significant. Therefore, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that these two categorical variables are independent. This further indicates that “Education” may not be a strong predictor of “Response”.
Thanks for reaching so far, we have covered a lot of contents in this article but still have two important hypothesis tests that are worth discussing separately in upcoming posts.
z-test: test the difference between two categories of numeric variables - when sample size is LARGE
correlation: test the relationship between two numeric variables
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Take home message.
In this article, we interactively explore and visualize the difference between three common statistical tests: t-test, ANOVA test and Chi-Squared test. We also use examples to walk through essential steps in hypothesis testing:
1. define the null and alternative hypothesis
2. choose the appropriate test
3. calculate the p-value
4. determine the statistical significance
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Getting Started With Property-Based Testing in Python With Hypothesis and Pytest
This tutorial will be your gentle guide to property-based testing. Property-based testing is a testing philosophy; a way of approaching testing, much like unit testing is a testing philosophy in which we write tests that verify individual components of your code.
By going through this tutorial, you will:
- learn what property-based testing is;
- understand the key benefits of using property-based testing;
- see how to create property-based tests with Hypothesis;
- attempt a small challenge to understand how to write good property-based tests; and
- Explore several situations in which you can use property-based testing with zero overhead.
What is Property-Based Testing?
In the most common types of testing, you write a test by running your code and then checking if the result you got matches the reference result you expected. This is in contrast with property-based testing , where you write tests that check that the results satisfy certain properties . This shift in perspective makes property-based testing (with Hypothesis) a great tool for a variety of scenarios, like fuzzing or testing roundtripping.
In this tutorial, we will be learning about the concepts behind property-based testing, and then we will put those concepts to practice. In order to do that, we will use three tools: Python, pytest, and Hypothesis.
- Python will be the programming language in which we will write both our functions that need testing and our tests.
- pytest will be the testing framework.
- Hypothesis will be the framework that will enable property-based testing.
Both Python and pytest are simple enough that, even if you are not a Python programmer or a pytest user, you should be able to follow along and get benefits from learning about property-based testing.
Setting up your environment to follow along
If you want to follow along with this tutorial and run the snippets of code and the tests yourself – which is highly recommendable – here is how you set up your environment.
Installing Python and pip
Start by making sure you have a recent version of Python installed. Head to the Python downloads page and grab the most recent version for yourself. Then, make sure your Python installation also has pip installed. [ pip ] is the package installer for Python and you can check if you have it on your machine by running the following command:
(This assumes python is the command to run Python on your machine.) If pip is not installed, follow their installation instructions .
Installing pytest and Hypothesis
pytest, the Python testing framework, and Hypothesis, the property-based testing framework, are easy to install after you have pip. All you have to do is run this command:
This tells pip to install pytest and Hypothesis and additionally it tells pip to update to newer versions if any of the packages are already installed.
To make sure pytest has been properly installed, you can run the following command:
The output on your machine may show a different version, depending on the exact version of pytest you have installed.
To ensure Hypothesis has been installed correctly, you have to open your Python REPL by running the following:
and then, within the REPL, type import hypothesis . If Hypothesis was properly installed, it should look like nothing happened. Immediately after, you can check for the version you have installed with hypothesis.__version__ . Thus, your REPL session would look something like this:
Your first property-based test
In this section, we will write our very first property-based test for a small function. This will show how to write basic tests with Hypothesis.
The function to test
Suppose we implemented a function gcd(n, m) that computes the greatest common divisor of two integers. (The greatest common divisor of n and m is the largest integer d that divides evenly into n and m .) What’s more, suppose that our implementation handles positive and negative integers. Here is what this implementation could look like:
If you save that into a file, say gcd.py , and then run it with:
you will enter an interactive REPL with your function already defined. This allows you to play with it a bit:
Now that the function is running and looks about right, we will test it with Hypothesis.
The property test
A property-based test isn’t wildly different from a standard (pytest) test, but there are some key differences. For example, instead of writing inputs to the function gcd , we let Hypothesis generate arbitrary inputs. Then, instead of hardcoding the expected outputs, we write assertions that ensure that the solution satisfies the properties that it should satisfy.
Thus, to write a property-based test, you need to determine the properties that your answer should satisfy.
Thankfully for us, we already know the properties that the result of gcd must satisfy:
“[…] the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two or more integers […] is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers.”
So, from that Wikipedia quote, we know that if d is the result of gcd(n, m) , then:
- d is positive;
- d divides n ;
- d divides m ; and
- no other number larger than d divides both n and m .
To turn these properties into a test, we start by writing the signature of a test_ function that accepts the same inputs as the function gcd :
(The prefix test_ is not significant for Hypothesis. We are using Hypothesis with pytest and pytest looks for functions that start with test_ , so that is why our function is called test_gcd .)
The arguments n and m , which are also the arguments of gcd , will be filled in by Hypothesis. For now, we will just assume that they are available.
If n and m are arguments that are available and for which we want to test the function gcd , we have to start by calling gcd with n and m and then saving the result. It is after calling gcd with the supplied arguments and getting the answer that we get to test the answer against the four properties listed above.
Taking the four properties into account, our test function could look like this:
Go ahead and put this test function next to the function gcd in the file gcd.py . Typically, tests live in a different file from the code being tested but this is such a small example that we can have everything in the same file.
Plugging in Hypothesis
We have written the test function but we still haven’t used Hypothesis to power the test. Let’s go ahead and use Hypothesis’ magic to generate a bunch of arguments n and m for our function gcd. In order to do that, we need to figure out what are all the legal inputs that our function gcd should handle.
For our function gcd , the valid inputs are all integers, so we need to tell Hypothesis to generate integers and feed them into test_gcd . To do that, we need to import a couple of things:
given is what we will use to tell Hypothesis that a test function needs to be given data. The submodule strategies is the module that contains lots of tools that know how to generate data.
With these two imports, we can annotate our test:
You can read the decorator @given(st.integers(), st.integers()) as “the test function needs to be given one integer, and then another integer”. To run the test, you can just use pytest :
(Note: depending on your operating system and the way you have things configured, pytest may not end up in your path, and the command pytest gcd.py may not work. If that is the case for you, you can use the command python -m pytest gcd.py instead.)
As soon as you do so, Hypothesis will scream an error message at you, saying that you got a ZeroDivisionError . Let us try to understand what Hypothesis is telling us by looking at the bottom of the output of running the tests:
This shows that the tests failed with a ZeroDivisionError , and the line that reads “Falsifying example: …” contains information about the test case that blew our test up. In our case, this was n = 0 and m = 0 . So, Hypothesis is telling us that when the arguments are both zero, our function fails because it raises a ZeroDivisionError .
The problem lies in the usage of the modulo operator % , which does not accept a right argument of zero. The right argument of % is zero if n is zero, in which case the result should be m . Adding an if statement is a possible fix for this:
However, Hypothesis still won’t be happy. If you run your test again, with pytest gcd.py , you get this output:
This time, the issue is with the very first property that should be satisfied. We can know this because Hypothesis tells us which assertion failed while also telling us which arguments led to that failure. In fact, if we look further up the output, this is what we see:
This time, the issue isn’t really our fault. The greatest common divisor is not defined when both arguments are zero, so it is ok for our function to not know how to handle this case. Thankfully, Hypothesis lets us customise the strategies used to generate arguments. In particular, we can say that we only want to generate integers between a minimum and a maximum value.
The code below changes the test so that it only runs with integers between 1 and 100 for the first argument ( n ) and between -500 and 500 for the second argument ( m ):
That is it! This was your very first property-based test.
Why bother with Property-Based Testing?
To write good property-based tests you need to analyse your problem carefully to be able to write down all the properties that are relevant. This may look quite cumbersome. However, using a tool like Hypothesis has very practical benefits:
- Hypothesis can generate dozens or hundreds of tests for you, while you would typically only write a couple of them;
- tests you write by hand will typically only cover the edge cases you have already thought of, whereas Hypothesis will not have that bias; and
- thinking about your solution to figure out its properties can give you deeper insights into the problem, leading to even better solutions.
These are just some of the advantages of using property-based testing.
Using Hypothesis for free
There are some scenarios in which you can use property-based testing essentially for free (that is, without needing to spend your precious brain power), because you don’t even need to think about properties. Let’s look at two such scenarios.
Testing Roundtripping
Hypothesis is a great tool to test roundtripping. For example, the built-in functions int and str in Python should roundtrip. That is, if x is an integer, then int(str(x)) should still be x . In other words, converting x to a string and then to an integer again should not change its value.
We can write a simple property-based test for this, leveraging the fact that Hypothesis generates dozens of tests for us. Save this in a Python file:
Now, run this file with pytest. Your test should pass!
Did you notice that, in our gcd example above, the very first time we ran Hypothesis we got a ZeroDivisionError ? The test failed, not because of an assert, but simply because our function crashed.
Hypothesis can be used for tests like this. You do not need to write a single property because you are just using Hypothesis to see if your function can deal with different inputs. Of course, even a buggy function can pass a fuzzing test like this, but this helps catch some types of bugs in your code.
Comparing against a gold standard
Sometimes, you want to test a function f that computes something that could be computed by some other function f_alternative . You know this other function is correct (that is why you call it a “gold standard”), but you cannot use it in production because it is very slow, or it consumes a lot of resources, or for some other combination of reasons.
Provided it is ok to use the function f_alternative in a testing environment, a suitable test would be something like the following:
When possible, this type of test is very powerful because it directly tests if your solution is correct for a series of different arguments.
For example, if you refactored an old piece of code, perhaps to simplify its logic or to make it more performant, Hypothesis will give you confidence that your new function will work as it should.
The importance of property completeness
In this section you will learn about the importance of being thorough when listing the properties that are relevant. To illustrate the point, we will reason about property-based tests for a function called my_sort , which is your implementation of a sorting function that accepts lists of integers.
The results are sorted
When thinking about the properties that the result of my_sort satisfies, you come up with the obvious thing: the result of my_sort must be sorted.
So, you set out to assert this property is satisfied:
Now, the only thing missing is the appropriate strategy to generate lists of integers. Thankfully, Hypothesis knows a strategy to generate lists, which is called lists . All you need to do is give it a strategy that generates the elements of the list.
Now that the test has been written, here is a challenge. Copy this code into a file called my_sort.py . Between the import and the test, define a function my_sort that is wrong (that is, write a function that does not sort lists of integers) and yet passes the test if you run it with pytest my_sort.py . (Keep reading when you are ready for spoilers.)
Notice that the only property that we are testing is “all elements of the result are sorted”, so we can return whatever result we want , as long as it is sorted. Here is my fake implementation of my_sort :
This passes our property test and yet is clearly wrong because we always return an empty list. So, are we missing a property? Perhaps.
The lengths are the same
We can try to add another obvious property, which is that the input and the output should have the same length, obviously. This means that our test becomes:
Now that the test has been improved, here is a challenge. Write a new version of my_sort that passes this test and is still wrong. (Keep reading when you are ready for spoilers.)
Notice that we are only testing for the length of the result and whether or not its elements are sorted, but we don’t test which elements are contained in the result. Thus, this fake implementation of my_sort would work:
Use the right numbers
To fix this, we can add the obvious property that the result should only contain numbers from the original list. With sets, this is easy to test:
Now that our test has been improved, I have yet another challenge. Can you write a fake version of my_sort that passes this test? (Keep reading when you are ready for spoilers).
Here is a fake version of my_sort that passes the test above:
The issue here is that we were not precise enough with our new property. In fact, set(result) <= set(int_list) ensures that we only use numbers that were available in the original list, but it doesn’t ensure that we use all of them. What is more, we can’t fix it by simply replacing the <= with == . Can you see why?I will give you a hint. If you just replace the <= with a == , so that the test becomes:
then you can write this passing version of my_sort that is still wrong:
This version is wrong because it reuses the largest element of the original list without respecting the number of times each integer should be used. For example, for the input list [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3] the result should be unchanged, whereas this version of my_sort returns [1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3] .
The final test
A test that is correct and complete would have to take into account how many times each number appears in the original list, which is something the built-in set is not prepared to do. Instead, one could use the collections.Counter from the standard library:
So, at this point, your test function test_my_sort is complete. At this point, it is no longer possible to fool the test! That is, the only way the test will pass is if my_sort is a real sorting function.
Use properties and specific examples
This section showed that the properties that you test should be well thought-through and you should strive to come up with a set of properties that are as specific as possible. When in doubt, it is better to have properties that may look redundant over having too few.
Another strategy that you can follow to help mitigate the danger of having come up with an insufficient set of properties is to mix property-based testing with other forms of testing, which is perfectly reasonable.
For example, on top of having the property-based test test_my_sort , you could add the following test:
This article covered two examples of functions to which we added property-based tests. We only covered the basics of using Hypothesis to run property-based tests but, more importantly, we covered the fundamental concepts that enable a developer to reason about and write complete property-based tests.
Property-based testing isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution that means you will never have to write any other type of test, but it does have characteristics that you should take advantage of whenever possible. In particular, we saw that property-based testing with Hypothesis was beneficial in that:
This article also went over a couple of common gotchas when writing property-based tests and listed scenarios in which property-based testing can be used with no overhead.
If you are interested in learning more about Hypothesis and property-based testing, we recommend you take a look at the Hypothesis docs and, in particular, to the page “What you can generate and how” .
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Awesome intro to property based testing for Python. Thank you, Dan and Rodrigo!
Greeting! Unfortunately, I don’t understand due to translation difficulties. PyCharm writes error messages and does not run the codes. The installation was done fine, check ok. I created a virtual environment. I would like a single good, usable, complete code, an example of what to write in gcd.py and what in test_gcd.py, which the development environment runs without errors. Thanks!
Thanks for article!
“it is better to have properties that may look redundant over having too few” Isn’t it the case with: assert len(result) == len(int_list) and: assert Counter(result) == Counter(int_list) ? I mean: is it possible to satisfy the second condition without satisfying the first ?
Yes. One case could be if result = [0,1], int_list = [0,1,1], and the implementation of Counter returns unique count.
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Statistical functions ( scipy.stats ) #
This module contains a large number of probability distributions, summary and frequency statistics, correlation functions and statistical tests, masked statistics, kernel density estimation, quasi-Monte Carlo functionality, and more.
Statistics is a very large area, and there are topics that are out of scope for SciPy and are covered by other packages. Some of the most important ones are:
statsmodels : regression, linear models, time series analysis, extensions to topics also covered by scipy.stats .
Pandas : tabular data, time series functionality, interfaces to other statistical languages.
PyMC : Bayesian statistical modeling, probabilistic machine learning.
scikit-learn : classification, regression, model selection.
Seaborn : statistical data visualization.
rpy2 : Python to R bridge.
Probability distributions #
Each univariate distribution is an instance of a subclass of rv_continuous ( rv_discrete for discrete distributions):
Continuous distributions #
The fit method of the univariate continuous distributions uses maximum likelihood estimation to fit the distribution to a data set. The fit method can accept regular data or censored data . Censored data is represented with instances of the CensoredData class.
Multivariate distributions #
scipy.stats.multivariate_normal methods accept instances of the following class to represent the covariance.
Discrete distributions #
An overview of statistical functions is given below. Many of these functions have a similar version in scipy.stats.mstats which work for masked arrays.
Summary statistics #
Frequency statistics #, hypothesis tests and related functions #.
SciPy has many functions for performing hypothesis tests that return a test statistic and a p-value, and several of them return confidence intervals and/or other related information.
The headings below are based on common uses of the functions within, but due to the wide variety of statistical procedures, any attempt at coarse-grained categorization will be imperfect. Also, note that tests within the same heading are not interchangeable in general (e.g. many have different distributional assumptions).
One Sample Tests / Paired Sample Tests #
One sample tests are typically used to assess whether a single sample was drawn from a specified distribution or a distribution with specified properties (e.g. zero mean).
Paired sample tests are often used to assess whether two samples were drawn from the same distribution; they differ from the independent sample tests below in that each observation in one sample is treated as paired with a closely-related observation in the other sample (e.g. when environmental factors are controlled between observations within a pair but not among pairs). They can also be interpreted or used as one-sample tests (e.g. tests on the mean or median of differences between paired observations).
Association/Correlation Tests #
These tests are often used to assess whether there is a relationship (e.g. linear) between paired observations in multiple samples or among the coordinates of multivariate observations.
These association tests and are to work with samples in the form of contingency tables. Supporting functions are available in scipy.stats.contingency .
Independent Sample Tests #
Independent sample tests are typically used to assess whether multiple samples were independently drawn from the same distribution or different distributions with a shared property (e.g. equal means).
Some tests are specifically for comparing two samples.
Others are generalized to multiple samples.
Resampling and Monte Carlo Methods #
The following functions can reproduce the p-value and confidence interval results of most of the functions above, and often produce accurate results in a wider variety of conditions. They can also be used to perform hypothesis tests and generate confidence intervals for custom statistics. This flexibility comes at the cost of greater computational requirements and stochastic results.
Instances of the following object can be passed into some hypothesis test functions to perform a resampling or Monte Carlo version of the hypothesis test.
Multiple Hypothesis Testing and Meta-Analysis #
These functions are for assessing the results of individual tests as a whole. Functions for performing specific multiple hypothesis tests (e.g. post hoc tests) are listed above.
The following functions are related to the tests above but do not belong in the above categories.
Quasi-Monte Carlo #
- scipy.stats.qmc.QMCEngine
- scipy.stats.qmc.Sobol
- scipy.stats.qmc.Halton
- scipy.stats.qmc.LatinHypercube
- scipy.stats.qmc.PoissonDisk
- scipy.stats.qmc.MultinomialQMC
- scipy.stats.qmc.MultivariateNormalQMC
- scipy.stats.qmc.discrepancy
- scipy.stats.qmc.geometric_discrepancy
- scipy.stats.qmc.update_discrepancy
- scipy.stats.qmc.scale
Contingency Tables #
- chi2_contingency
- relative_risk
- association
- expected_freq
Masked statistics functions #
- hdquantiles
- hdquantiles_sd
- idealfourths
- plotting_positions
- find_repeats
- trimmed_mean
- trimmed_mean_ci
- trimmed_std
- trimmed_var
- scoreatpercentile
- pointbiserialr
- kendalltau_seasonal
- siegelslopes
- theilslopes
- sen_seasonal_slopes
- ttest_1samp
- ttest_onesamp
- mannwhitneyu
- kruskalwallis
- friedmanchisquare
- brunnermunzel
- kurtosistest
- obrientransform
- trimmed_stde
- argstoarray
- count_tied_groups
- compare_medians_ms
- median_cihs
- mquantiles_cimj
Other statistical functionality #
Transformations #, statistical distances #.
- scipy.stats.sampling.NumericalInverseHermite
- scipy.stats.sampling.NumericalInversePolynomial
- scipy.stats.sampling.TransformedDensityRejection
- scipy.stats.sampling.SimpleRatioUniforms
- scipy.stats.sampling.RatioUniforms
- scipy.stats.sampling.DiscreteAliasUrn
- scipy.stats.sampling.DiscreteGuideTable
- scipy.stats.sampling.UNURANError
- FastGeneratorInversion
- scipy.stats.sampling.FastGeneratorInversion.evaluate_error
- scipy.stats.sampling.FastGeneratorInversion.ppf
- scipy.stats.sampling.FastGeneratorInversion.qrvs
- scipy.stats.sampling.FastGeneratorInversion.rvs
- scipy.stats.sampling.FastGeneratorInversion.support
Random variate generation / CDF Inversion #
Fitting / survival analysis #, directional statistical functions #, sensitivity analysis #, plot-tests #, univariate and multivariate kernel density estimation #, warnings / errors used in scipy.stats #, result classes used in scipy.stats #.
These classes are private, but they are included here because instances of them are returned by other statistical functions. User import and instantiation is not supported.
- scipy.stats._result_classes.RelativeRiskResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.BinomTestResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.TukeyHSDResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.DunnettResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.PearsonRResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.FitResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.OddsRatioResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.TtestResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.ECDFResult
- scipy.stats._result_classes.EmpiricalDistributionFunction
- Pydantic Settings
- Pydantic People
Hypothesis is the Python library for property-based testing . Hypothesis can infer how to construct type-annotated classes, and supports builtin types, many standard library types, and generic types from the typing and typing_extensions modules by default.
Pydantic v2.0 drops built-in support for Hypothesis and no more ships with the integrated Hypothesis plugin.
We are temporarily removing the Hypothesis plugin in favor of studying a different mechanism. For more information, see the issue annotated-types/annotated-types#37 .
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