>> v2 = [3, 4, 4, 4, 8] >>> # numpy returns a 2X2 array, the correlation coefficient >>> # is the number at entry [0][1] >>> print(f"{{np.corrcoef(v1[:-1], v2[:-1])[0][1]:.6f}}") 0.333333 >>> print(f"{{np.corrcoef(v1[1:], v2[1:])[0][1]:.6f}}") 0.916949 >>> s1 = pd.Series(v1) >>> s2 = pd.Series(v2) >>> s1.rolling(4).corr(s2) 0 NaN 1 NaN 2 NaN 3 0.333333 4 0.916949 dtype: float64 The below example shows a similar rolling calculation on a DataFrame using the pairwise option. >>> matrix = np.array([[51., 35.], [49., 30.], [47., 32.], [46., 31.], [50., 36.]]) >>> print(np.corrcoef(matrix[:-1,0], matrix[:-1,1]).round(7)) [[1. 0.6263001] [0.6263001 1. ]] >>> print(np.corrcoef(matrix[1:,0], matrix[1:,1]).round(7)) [[1. 0.5553681] [0.5553681 1. ]] >>> df = pd.DataFrame(matrix, columns=['X','Y']) >>> df X Y 0 51.0 35.0 1 49.0 30.0 2 47.0 32.0 3 46.0 31.0 4 50.0 36.0 >>> df.rolling(4).corr(pairwise=True) X Y 0 X NaN NaN Y NaN NaN 1 X NaN NaN Y NaN NaN 2 X NaN NaN Y NaN NaN 3 X 1.000000 0.626300 Y 0.626300 1.000000 4 X 1.000000 0.555368 Y 0.555368 1.000000 Z