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# scipy.stats.mstats.describe

scipy.stats.mstats.describe(a, axis=0, ddof=0, bias=True)

  Computes several descriptive statistics of the passed array.

  Parameters:
    a array_like

      Data array

    axis int or None, optional

      Axis along which to calculate statistics. Default 0. If None, compute over the whole array a.

    ddof int, optional

      degree of freedom (default 0); note that default ddof is different from the same routine in stats.describe

    bias bool, optional

      If False, then the skewness and kurtosis calculations are corrected for statistical bias.

  Returns:
    nobs int

      (size of the data (discarding missing values)

    minmax(int, int)

      min, max

    mean float

      arithmetic mean

    variance float

      unbiased variance

    skewness float

      biased skewness

    kurtosis float

      biased kurtosis

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> from scipy.stats.mstats import describe
      >>> ma = np.ma.array(range(6), mask=[0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1])
      >>> describe(ma)
      DescribeResult(nobs=3, minmax=(masked_array(data=0,
                   mask=False,
             fill_value=999999), masked_array(data=2,
                   mask=False,
             fill_value=999999)), mean=1.0, variance=0.6666666666666666,
             skewness=masked_array(data=0., mask=False, fill_value=1e+20),
              kurtosis=-1.5)