Appling jbrockmendel's suggestion

Author: MomIsBestFriend

pandas/core/nanops.py

@@ -1306,6 +1306,7 @@ def nancorr(
 
 def get_corr_func(method) -> Callable:
     if method in ["kendall", "spearman", "pearson"]:
+        from scipy import stats
         from scipy.stats import kendalltau, spearmanr
     elif callable(method):
         return method