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| -rw-r--r-- | python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py index dd670a9b3d..ab41e88620 100644 --- a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py +++ b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py @@ -751,15 +751,15 @@ class DataFrame(object): @since("1.3.1") def describe(self, *cols): - """Computes statistics for numeric columns. + """Computes statistics for numeric and string columns. This include count, mean, stddev, min, and max. If no columns are - given, this function computes statistics for all numerical columns. + given, this function computes statistics for all numerical or string columns. .. note:: This function is meant for exploratory data analysis, as we make no \ guarantee about the backward compatibility of the schema of the resulting DataFrame. - >>> df.describe().show() + >>> df.describe(['age']).show() +-------+------------------+ |summary| age| +-------+------------------+ @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ class DataFrame(object): | min| 2| | max| 5| +-------+------------------+ - >>> df.describe(['age', 'name']).show() + >>> df.describe().show() +-------+------------------+-----+ |summary| age| name| +-------+------------------+-----+ |