scvelo.utils.get_moments¶

scvelo.utils.get_moments(adata, layer=None, second_order=None, centered=True, mode='connectivities')¶

Computes moments for a specified layer.

First and second order moments. If centered, that corresponds to means and variances across nearest neighbors.

adata: AnnData: Annotated data matrix.
layer: str (default: None): Key of layer with abundances to consider for moment computation.
second_order: bool (default: None): Whether to compute second order moments from abundances.
centered: bool (default: True): Whether to compute centered (=variance) or uncentered second order moments.
mode: ‘connectivities’ or ‘distances’ (default: ‘connectivities’): Distance metric to use for moment computation.