API cleanup: Remove global duplicates of DataFrame methods #15241
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In the currently online pandas 0.19.2 documentation, I see the following inconsistency:
The global versions of these methods (and probably others) are identical to the local ones except for an additional DataFrame argument, I think that all these should only be DataFrame methods. This would e.g. consistently enable chaining.
So let me suggest that the global versions should be removed, of course after a deprecation period.
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