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How does the pandas series.expanding() method work?
The series.expanding() method is one of the window methods of pandas and it Provides expanding transformations. And it returns a window subclassed for the particular operation.
The parameters for this method are min_periods, center, axis, and method. The default value for the min_periods is 1 and it also takes an integer value. The center parameter takes a boolean value and the default one is False. In the same way, the default value for the axis parameter is 0, and for the method is ‘single’.
Example 1
In this following example, the series.expanding() method calculated the cumulative sum of the entire series object
# importing packages
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
# create a series
s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
print(s)
# apply expanding method
result = s.expanding().sum()
print("Result:")
print(result)Explanation
Initially, we have created a series object using a list of integers.
Output
The output is as follows −
0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 dtype: int64 Result: 0 1.0 1 3.0 2 6.0 3 10.0 4 15.0 dtype: float64
The series.expanding() method successfully calculated the cumulative sum of series elements using the sum() function.
Example 2
Here we will calculate the cumulative mean of entire series elements using series.expanding() method and mean function.
# importing packages
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
# create a series
s = pd.Series([1,3, 5, np.nan, 7, 9])
print(s)
# apply expanding method
result = s.expanding().mean()
print("Result:")
print(result)Output
The output is given below −
0 1.0 1 3.0 2 5.0 3 NaN 4 7.0 5 9.0 dtype: float64 Result: 0 1.0 1 2.0 2 3.0 3 3.0 4 4.0 5 5.0 dtype: float64
The series.expanding() method calculates the cumulative average of entire series elements and the missing values are replaced by the previous value.
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