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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 _reduce(self, op, name, axis=0, skipna=True, numeric_only=None, filter_type=None, **kwds):
 """ perform a reduction operation """

        return op(self.get_values(), skipna=skipna, **kwds)