From a7fd4e4219cb8a8ffcdc0c385af94305a0071f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sophiekamuf <36629628+sophiekamuf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:52:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add "df.describe()" (#24664)

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 guide/english/data-science-tools/pandas/index.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/guide/english/data-science-tools/pandas/index.md b/guide/english/data-science-tools/pandas/index.md
index cb327ead20..7acd6a26a6 100644
--- a/guide/english/data-science-tools/pandas/index.md
+++ b/guide/english/data-science-tools/pandas/index.md
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ df.tail()
 ```
 This will show the last 5 rows of the data frame.
 
+To show descriptive statistics, such as the shape and central tendency of the dataset, the `describe` method can be used:
+```python
+df.describe()
+```
+This will show the `count`, `mean`, `std`, `min`, `max` among others for numeric data.
+
 ## Subsetting
 A data frame can be subset in many ways. One of the simplest is getting a single column. For instance, if the data frame `df` contains a column named `age`, we can extract it as follows:
 ```python