dask.dataframe.Series.bfill
dask.dataframe.Series.bfill¶
- Series.bfill(axis=None, limit=None)¶
Fill NA/NaN values by using the next valid observation to fill the gap.
This docstring was copied from pandas.core.frame.DataFrame.bfill.
Some inconsistencies with the Dask version may exist.
- Parameters
- axis{0 or ‘index’} for Series, {0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’} for DataFrame
Axis along which to fill missing values. For Series this parameter is unused and defaults to 0.
- inplacebool, default False (Not supported in Dask)
If True, fill in-place. Note: this will modify any other views on this object (e.g., a no-copy slice for a column in a DataFrame).
- limitint, default None
If method is specified, this is the maximum number of consecutive NaN values to forward/backward fill. In other words, if there is a gap with more than this number of consecutive NaNs, it will only be partially filled. If method is not specified, this is the maximum number of entries along the entire axis where NaNs will be filled. Must be greater than 0 if not None.
- downcastdict, default is None (Not supported in Dask)
A dict of item->dtype of what to downcast if possible, or the string ‘infer’ which will try to downcast to an appropriate equal type (e.g. float64 to int64 if possible).
- Returns
- Series/DataFrame or None
Object with missing values filled or None if
inplace=True.
Examples
For Series:
>>> s = pd.Series([1, None, None, 2]) >>> s.bfill() 0 1.0 1 2.0 2 2.0 3 2.0 dtype: float64 >>> s.bfill(limit=1) 0 1.0 1 NaN 2 2.0 3 2.0 dtype: float64
With DataFrame:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1, None, None, 4], 'B': [None, 5, None, 7]}) >>> df A B 0 1.0 NaN 1 NaN 5.0 2 NaN NaN 3 4.0 7.0 >>> df.bfill() A B 0 1.0 5.0 1 4.0 5.0 2 4.0 7.0 3 4.0 7.0 >>> df.bfill(limit=1) A B 0 1.0 5.0 1 NaN 5.0 2 4.0 7.0 3 4.0 7.0