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pandas.DataFrame.describe

DataFrame.describe(percentile_width=50)

Generate various summary statistics of each column, excluding NaN values. These include: count, mean, std, min, max, and lower%/50%/upper% percentiles

Parameters :

percentile_width : float, optional

width of the desired uncertainty interval, default is 50, which corresponds to lower=25, upper=75

Returns :

DataFrame of summary statistics :