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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def describe(self):
 """ Return basic statistics about the curve. """

        stats = {}
        stats['samples'] = self.shape[0]
        stats['nulls'] = self[np.isnan(self)].shape[0]
        stats['mean'] = float(np.nanmean(self.real))
        stats['min'] = float(np.nanmin(self.real))
        stats['max'] = float(np.nanmax(self.real))
        return stats