I found scipy.stats.skew with parameter bias=False return equal output, so I think in pandas skew is bias=False by default:

bias : bool

If False, then the calculations are corrected for statistical bias.

import pandas as pd
import scipy.stats.stats as stats

series = pd.Series(
    {0: -0.051917457635120283,
     1: -0.070071606515280632,
     2: -0.11204865874074735,
     3: -0.14679988245503134,
     4: -0.088062467095565145,
     5: 0.17579741198527793,
     6: -0.10765856028420773,
     7: -0.11971470229167547,
     8: -0.15169210769159247,
     9: -0.038616800990881606,
     10: 0.16988162977411481,
     11: 0.092999418364443032}
)

print (series.skew())
1.11196375867

print (stats.skew(series, bias=False))
1.1119637586658944

Not sure for 100%, but I think I find it in code


EDIT (piRSquared)

From scipy skew code

if not bias:
    can_correct = (n > 2) & (m2 > 0)
    if can_correct.any():
        m2 = np.extract(can_correct, m2)
        m3 = np.extract(can_correct, m3)
        nval = ma.sqrt((n-1.0)*n)/(n-2.0)*m3/m2**1.5
        np.place(vals, can_correct, nval)
return vals

The adjustment was (n * (n - 1)) ** 0.5 / (n - 2) and not (n * (n - 1)) ** 0.5 / (n - 1)

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