Limit of how many values to fill. Returns ------- Series, DataFrame An upsampled Series or DataFrame with backward filled NaN values. See Also -------- bfill : Alias of backfill. fillna : Fill NaN values using the specified method, which can be 'backfill'. nearest : Fill NaN values with nearest neighbor starting from center. ffill : Forward fill NaN values. Series.fillna : Fill NaN values in the Series using the specified method, which can be 'backfill'. DataFrame.fillna : Fill NaN values in the DataFrame using the specified method, which can be 'backfill'. References ---------- .. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputation_(statistics) Examples -------- Resampling a Series: >>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3], ... index=pd.date_range('20180101', periods=3, freq='h')) >>> s 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: H, dtype: int64 >>> s.resample('30min').bfill() 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 2 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: 30T, dtype: int64 >>> s.resample('15min').bfill(limit=2) 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:15:00 NaN 2018-01-01 00:30:00 2.0 2018-01-01 00:45:00 2.0 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2.0 2018-01-01 01:15:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3.0 2018-01-01 01:45:00 3.0 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 15T, dtype: float64 Resampling a DataFrame that has missing values: >>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [2, np.nan, 6], 'b': [1, 3, 5]}, ... index=pd.date_range('20180101', periods=3, ... freq='h')) >>> df a b 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2.0 1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 02:00:00 6.0 5 >>> df.resample('30min').bfill() a b 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2.0 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 01:30:00 6.0 5 2018-01-01 02:00:00 6.0 5 >>> df.resample('15min').bfill(limit=2) a b 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2.0 1.0 2018-01-01 00:15:00 NaN NaN 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 3.0 2018-01-01 00:45:00 NaN 3.0 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 3.0 2018-01-01 01:15:00 NaN NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 6.0 5.0 2018-01-01 01:45:00 6.0 5.0 2018-01-01 02:00:00 6.0 5.0 Ú