Calculate the ewm (exponential weighted moment) sample covariance.
If not supplied then will default to self and produce pairwise output.
If False then only matching columns between self and other will be used and the output will be a DataFrame. If True then all pairwise combinations will be calculated and the output will be a MultiIndex DataFrame in the case of DataFrame inputs. In the case of missing elements, only complete pairwise observations will be used.
Use a standard estimation bias correction.
Include only float, int, boolean columns.
Added in version 1.5.0.
Return type is the same as the original object with np.float64 dtype.
See also
pandas.Series.ewmCalling ewm with Series data.
pandas.DataFrame.ewmCalling ewm with DataFrames.
pandas.Series.covAggregating cov for Series.
pandas.DataFrame.covAggregating cov for DataFrame.
Examples
>>> ser1 = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> ser2 = pd.Series([10, 11, 13, 16])
>>> ser1.ewm(alpha=.2).cov(ser2)
0 NaN
1 0.500000
2 1.524590
3 3.408836
dtype: float64
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