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# pandas.api.typing.SeriesGroupBy.transform

SeriesGroupBy.transform(func, *args, engine=None, engine_kwargs=None, **kwargs)

  Call function producing a same-indexed Series on each group.

  Returns a Series having the same indexes as the original object filled with the transformed values.

  Parameters:
    func function, str

      Function to apply to each group. See the Notes section below for requirements.

      Accepted inputs are:

      - String

      - Python function

      - Numba JIT function with `engine='numba'` specified.

      Only passing a single function is supported with this engine. If the `'numba'` engine is chosen, the function must be a user defined function with `values` and `index` as the first and second arguments respectively in the function signature. Each group’s index will be passed to the user defined function and optionally available for use.

      If a string is chosen, then it needs to be the name of the groupby method you want to use.

    *args

      Positional arguments to pass to func.

    engine str, default None

      - `'cython'` : Runs the function through C-extensions from cython.

      - `'numba'` : Runs the function through JIT compiled code from numba.

      - `None` : Defaults to `'cython'` or the global setting `compute.use_numba`

    engine_kwargs dict, default None

      - For `'cython'` engine, there are no accepted `engine_kwargs`

      - For `'numba'` engine, the engine can accept `nogil` and `parallel` dictionary keys. The values must either be `True` or `False`. The default `engine_kwargs` for the `'numba'` engine is `{'nogil': False, 'parallel': False}` and will be applied to the function

    **kwargs

      Keyword arguments to be passed into func.

  Returns:
    Series

      Series with the same indexes as the original object filled with transformed values.

  See also

  `Series.groupby.apply`

    Apply function `func` group-wise and combine the results together.

  `Series.groupby.aggregate`

    Aggregate using one or more operations.

  `Series.transform`

    Call `func` on self producing a Series with the same axis shape as self.

  Notes

  See Transformation in the User Guide for more details and examples.

  Each group is endowed the attribute ‘name’ in case you need to know which group you are working on.

  `func` is passed each group as a whole `Series`. The current implementation imposes two requirements on `func`:

  - `func` must return a value that either has the same shape as the input group or can be broadcast to the shape of the input group. For example, if `func` returns a scalar it will be broadcast to have the same shape as the input group.

  - `func` must not mutate groups. Mutation is not supported and may produce unexpected results. See Mutating with User Defined Function (UDF) methods for more details.

  When using `engine='numba'`, there will be no “fall back” behavior internally. The group data and group index will be passed as numpy arrays to the JITed user defined function, and no alternative execution attempts will be tried.

  The resulting dtype will reflect the return value of the passed `func`, see the examples below.

  Changed in version 2.0.0: When using `.transform` on a grouped DataFrame and the transformation function returns a DataFrame, pandas now aligns the result’s index with the input’s index. You can call `.to_numpy()` on the result of the transformation function to avoid alignment.

  Examples

      >>> ser = pd.Series(
      ...     [390.0, 350.0, 30.0, 20.0],
      ...     index=["Falcon", "Falcon", "Parrot", "Parrot"],
      ...     name="Max Speed",
      ... )
      >>> grouped = ser.groupby([1, 1, 2, 2])
      >>> grouped.transform(lambda x: (x - x.mean()) / x.std())
          Falcon    0.707107
          Falcon   -0.707107
          Parrot    0.707107
          Parrot   -0.707107
          Name: Max Speed, dtype: float64

  Broadcast result of the transformation

      >>> grouped.transform(lambda x: x.max() - x.min())
      Falcon    40.0
      Falcon    40.0
      Parrot    10.0
      Parrot    10.0
      Name: Max Speed, dtype: float64

      >>> grouped.transform("mean")
      Falcon    370.0
      Falcon    370.0
      Parrot     25.0
      Parrot     25.0
      Name: Max Speed, dtype: float64

  The resulting dtype will reflect the return value of the passed `func`, for example:

      >>> grouped.transform(lambda x: x.astype(int).max())
      Falcon    390
      Falcon    390
      Parrot     30
      Parrot     30
      Name: Max Speed, dtype: int64