Cross-correlation (time-lag-correlation) with pandas?

Question

I have various time series, that I want to correlate - or rather, cross-correlate - with each other, to find out at which time lag the correlation factor is the greatest.

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Answer 1

To build up on Andre's answer - if you only care about (lagged) correlation to the target, but want to test various lags (e.g. to see which lag gives the highest correlations), you can do something like this:

lagged_correlation = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(
    {x: [df[target].corr(df[x].shift(-t)) for t in range(max_lag)] for x in df.columns})

This way, each row corresponds to a different lag value, and each column corresponds to a different variable (one of them is the target itself, giving the autocorrelation).