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A descriptive statistic is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features of a collection of information.
The functions that perform descriptive statistics on a DataFrame are min(), max(), idxmax(), idxmin(), mode(), mean(), median(), count(), sum(), quantile(), std(), var().
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