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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df1 = pd.DataFrame(
    {"A": [1, np.nan, 7, 8], "B": [False, True, True, False], "C": [10, 4, 9, 3]}
)
df2 = df1[["B", "C"]]
(df1 + 1).corrwith(df2.B, method="spearman")

Issue Description

Seems like the behavior of pandas.DataFrame.corrwith is changed from pandas 1.5.0:

The result from the reproducible example in pandas 1.4.0:

>>> (df1 + 1).corrwith(df2.B, method="spearman")
A    0.0
B    1.0
C    0.0
dtype: float64

However, the result from the reproducible example in pandas 1.5.0:

>>> (df1 + 1).corrwith(df2.B, method="spearman")
A    0.5
B    1.0
C   -0.2
dtype: float64

I see the https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/46174 that improve the performance, but maybe the behavior also changed?

Expected Behavior

The expected behavior in the previous pandas was:

>>> (df1 + 1).corrwith(df2.B, method="spearman")
A    0.0
B    1.0
C    0.0
dtype: float64

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 87cfe4e38bafe7300a6003a1d18bd80f3f77c763 python : 3.9.11.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Darwin OS-release : 21.6.0 Version : Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Wed Aug 10 14:25:27 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.141.5~2/RELEASE_X86_64 machine : x86_64 processor : i386 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : None LOCALE : None.UTF-8 pandas : 1.5.0 numpy : 1.22.3 pytz : 2021.3 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 61.2.0 pip : 22.2.2 Cython : 0.29.24 pytest : 6.2.5 hypothesis : None sphinx : 3.0.4 blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : None lxml.etree : None html5lib : None pymysql : None psycopg2 : None jinja2 : 3.0.3 IPython : 7.29.0 pandas_datareader: None bs4 : 4.10.0 bottleneck : 1.3.4 brotli : None fastparquet : None fsspec : None gcsfs : None matplotlib : 3.5.1 numba : None numexpr : 2.8.1 odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.0.10 pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : 9.0.0 pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : 1.7.2 snappy : None sqlalchemy : 1.4.26 tables : None tabulate : 0.8.9 xarray : None xlrd : None xlwt : None zstandard : None tzdata : None

Comment From: MarcoGorelli

Hey, thanks for the report

I see the https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/46174 that improve the performance, but maybe the behavior also changed?

Yup, git bisect confirms

Comment From: MarcoGorelli

cc @fractionalhare (no blame, just in case you know how to fix it)

Comment From: fractionalhare

Thanks for flagging. I can look later today after work. This is strange, my guess is an edge case not covered by tests before. I think it involves the NaN not being ranked by argsort for the Spearman calculation. Will confirm later.

Comment From: phofl

Reverting would be an option, if we can not figure out what caused this

Comment From: MarcoGorelli

Hi @itholic

Thanks for having reported this - there's now a release candidate for pandas 2.0.0, which you can install with

mamba install -c conda-forge/label/pandas_rc pandas==2.0.0rc0

or

python -m pip install --upgrade --pre pandas==2.0.0rc0

If you try it out and report bugs, then we can fix them before the final 2.0.0 release