of the object over which to compute the rank. .. deprecated:: 2.1.0 For axis=1, operate on the underlying object instead. Otherwise the axis keyword is not necessary. Returns ------- DataFrame with ranking of values within each group %(see_also)s Examples -------- >>> df = pd.DataFrame( ... { ... "group": ["a", "a", "a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "b", "b", "b"], ... "value": [2, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 1, 5], ... } ... ) >>> df group value 0 a 2 1 a 4 2 a 2 3 a 3 4 a 5 5 b 1 6 b 2 7 b 4 8 b 1 9 b 5 >>> for method in ['average', 'min', 'max', 'dense', 'first']: ... df[f'{method}_rank'] = df.groupby('group')['value'].rank(method) >>> df group value average_rank min_rank max_rank dense_rank first_rank 0 a 2 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 1 a 4 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.0 4.0 2 a 2 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 3 a 3 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.0 3.0 4 a 5 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 5 b 1 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 6 b 2 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.0 3.0 7 b 4 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.0 4.0 8 b 1 1.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 9 b 5 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 >