polars.Series.pct_change¶
- Series.pct_change(n: int = 1) polars.internals.series.Series¶
Percentage change (as fraction) between current element and most-recent non-null element at least n period(s) before the current element.
Computes the change from the previous row by default.
- Parameters
- n
periods to shift for forming percent change.
- >>> pl.Series(range(10)).pct_change()
- shape: (10,)
- Series: ‘’ [f64]
- [
null inf 1 0.5 0.3333333333333333 0.25 0.2 0.16666666666666666 0.14285714285714285 0.125
- ]
- >>> pl.Series([1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512]).pct_change(2)
- shape: (10,)
- Series: ‘’ [f64]
- [
null null 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
- ]