pandas.DataFrame.cov¶
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DataFrame.
cov
(min_periods=None)[source]¶ Compute pairwise covariance of columns, excluding NA/null values
Parameters: min_periods : int, optional
Minimum number of observations required per pair of columns to have a valid result.
Returns: y : DataFrame
Notes
y contains the covariance matrix of the DataFrame’s time series. The covariance is normalized by N-1 (unbiased estimator).