ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

[alokreddy]

I get the below error when I try to run below code.

from lifelines import KaplanMeierFitter

Error information:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-ca4b8facbf77> in <module>()
      5 from datetime import date
      6 from bokeh.io import output_notebook
----> 7 from lifelines import KaplanMeierFitter

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\lifelines\__init__.py in <module>()
      1 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
----> 2 from .estimation import KaplanMeierFitter, NelsonAalenFitter, \
      3     AalenAdditiveFitter, BreslowFlemingHarringtonFitter, CoxPHFitter, \
      4     WeibullFitter, ExponentialFitter, CoxTimeVaryingFitter
      5 

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\lifelines\estimation.py in <module>()
      1 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
----> 2 from lifelines.fitters import BaseFitter
      3 from lifelines.fitters.weibull_fitter import WeibullFitter
      4 from lifelines.fitters.exponential_fitter import ExponentialFitter
      5 from lifelines.fitters.nelson_aalen_fitter import NelsonAalenFitter

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\lifelines\fitters\__init__.py in <module>()
      6 import pandas as pd
      7 
----> 8 from lifelines.plotting import plot_estimate
      9 from lifelines.utils import qth_survival_times
     10 

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\lifelines\plotting.py in <module>()
      3 
      4 import numpy as np
----> 5 from .utils import coalesce
      6 
      7 

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\lifelines\utils\__init__.py in <module>()
      6 import numpy as np
      7 from numpy.linalg import solve
----> 8 from scipy import stats
      9 import pandas as pd
     10 from pandas import to_datetime

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py in <module>()
    341 from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
    342 
--> 343 from .stats import *
    344 from .distributions import *
    345 from .morestats import *

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py in <module>()
    167 from scipy._lib.six import callable, string_types
    168 from scipy._lib._version import NumpyVersion
--> 169 import scipy.special as special
    170 import scipy.linalg as linalg
    171 from . import distributions

C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py in <module>()
    638 from .sf_error import SpecialFunctionWarning, SpecialFunctionError
    639 
--> 640 from ._ufuncs import *
    641 
    642 from .basic import *

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

System information:

'2.7.10 |Anaconda 2.3.0 (32-bit)| (default, May 28 2015, 17:02:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]'

[CamDavidsonPilon]

In a python shell, can you “from scipy import stats” fine?

[alokreddy]

No. I get the same error for below code.
from scipy import stats

Error below:
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

[CamDavidsonPilon]

So the error is in the install of scipy. I would suggest starting the investigation there.