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Docs: mention that describe() uses approximate algorithms (#10416)#12113
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Your formatting is off here so the note isn't actually rendering in the build preview.
I also don't think this is the right place to put this information. It should probably be in the docstring of.describe().
This PR updates the DataFrame API docs to clarify that
the
describe()method in Dask uses approximate algorithmsfor large datasets, which may lead to slight differences
from Pandas results.