Calculate the rolling standard deviation.
Delta Degrees of Freedom. The divisor used in calculations is N - ddof, where N represents the number of elements.
Include only float, int, boolean columns.
Added in version 1.5.0.
'cython' : Runs the operation through C-extensions from cython.
'numba' : Runs the operation through JIT compiled code from numba.
None : Defaults to 'cython' or globally setting compute.use_numba
Added in version 1.4.0.
For 'cython' engine, there are no accepted engine_kwargs
For 'numba' engine, the engine can accept nopython, nogil and parallel dictionary keys. The values must either be True or False. The default engine_kwargs for the 'numba' engine is {'nopython': True, 'nogil': False, 'parallel': False}
Added in version 1.4.0.
Return type is the same as the original object with np.float64 dtype.
See also
numpy.stdEquivalent method for NumPy array.
pandas.Series.rollingCalling rolling with Series data.
pandas.DataFrame.rollingCalling rolling with DataFrames.
pandas.Series.stdAggregating std for Series.
pandas.DataFrame.stdAggregating std for DataFrame.
Notes
The default ddof of 1 used in Series.std() is different than the default ddof of 0 in numpy.std().
A minimum of one period is required for the rolling calculation.
Examples
>>> s = pd.Series([5, 5, 6, 7, 5, 5, 5])
>>> s.rolling(3).std()
0 NaN
1 NaN
2 0.577350
3 1.000000
4 1.000000
5 1.154701
6 0.000000
dtype: float64
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