title: Python Dataframes: Describing a single column
body: <p>Is there a way I can apply df.describe() to just an isolated column in a DataFrame.</p>
  
  <p>For example if I have several columns and I use df.describe() - it returns and describes all the columns. From research, I understand I can add the following:</p>
  
  <p>"A list-like of dtypes : Limits the results to the provided data types. To limit the result to numeric types submit numpy.number. To limit it instead to object columns submit the numpy.object data type. <strong>Strings can also be used in the style of select_dtypes (e.g. df.describe(include=['O'])). To select pandas categorical columns, use 'category'"</strong></p>
  
  <p>However I don't quite know how to write this out in python code. 
  Thanks in advance.</p>