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Need help using Pipeline to calculate correlations

I am trying to use the Pipeline framework to calculate correlations between all assets in my universe and a single Equity that I can choose. Ideally, I would like to input an asset_id representing my selected Equity and then return a Pipeline result with a column of values representing all correlations. Below, I have chosen SPY as my single Equity (for now). However, I keep getting errors.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much!

4 responses

Hi Robert,

There are builtin Pipeline factors and factor methods to help you do just this. I attached a notebook that computes the Pearson R in Pipeline using 2 different approaches (yields the same result).

The documentation for these Factors and Factor methods can be found here:
- RollingPearsonOfReturns
- Factor.pearsonr

I hope this helps.

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Thanks very much- this is very helpful!

Hey I was a bit confused on how to implement this with new data importer function. How would I get the correlation between the two columns, and add that correlation into a new column in the pipeline. I would really appreciate any help.

This is an updated notebook with the output of the initial pipeline