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Issue computing partial moments

Hello All,

I'm new to python, and I am desperately trying to use partial moments as factors in pipeline, without success. the problem is that I use a factor as an input for my custom factor and get the following error:

ValueError: could not broadcast input array from shape (20,8343) into shape (8343)

I cannot figure out how to compute along the right axis.
Could someone please help me on this ?

here is the code I use:

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Can you share a version of the notebook that reproduces the error?

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Hey,

I made some modifications and finally got over this. However, I'm now stuck with a problem of window length... Here is an example with second-order partial moments.
Thanks in advance.

Anyone ?

So the error here is in a concept called "window safe" computation. The best explanation is Jamie's answer to this thread.

Ok, Thanks for your help !