Return a scalar result of performing the reduction operation.

        Parameters
        ----------
        name : str
            Name of the function, supported values are:
            { any, all, min, max, sum, mean, median, prod,
            std, var, sem, kurt, skew }.
        skipna : bool, default True
            If True, skip NaN values.
        **kwargs
            Additional keyword arguments passed to the reduction function.
            Currently, `ddof` is the only supported kwarg.

        Returns
        -------
        scalar

        Raises
        ------
        TypeError : subclass does not define reductions

def _reduce(self, name, skipna=True, **kwargs):
        """
        Return a scalar result of performing the reduction operation.

        Parameters
        ----------
        name : str
            Name of the function, supported values are:
            { any, all, min, max, sum, mean, median, prod,
            std, var, sem, kurt, skew }.
        skipna : bool, default True
            If True, skip NaN values.
        **kwargs
            Additional keyword arguments passed to the reduction function.
            Currently, `ddof` is the only supported kwarg.

        Returns
        -------
        scalar

        Raises
        ------
        TypeError : subclass does not define reductions
        """
        raise TypeError("cannot perform {name} with type {dtype}".format(
            name=name, dtype=self.dtype))