{"id":43247,"date":"2024-04-15T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=43247"},"modified":"2024-04-15T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:26:44","slug":"in-pandas-what-method-is-used-to-remove-missing-values-from-a-dataframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/in-pandas-what-method-is-used-to-remove-missing-values-from-a-dataframe\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pandas, what method is used to remove missing values from a DataFrame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[amp_mcq option1=&#8221;groupby()&#8221; option2=&#8221;drop_duplicates()&#8221; option3=&#8221;dropna()&#8221; option4=&#8221;fillna()&#8221; correct=&#8221;option3&#8243;]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The correct answer is C. dropna().<\/p>\n<p>The dropna() method is used to remove missing values from a DataFrame. It can be used to remove all missing values, or to remove only missing values from a specific column or columns.<\/p>\n<p>The syntax for the dropna() method is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><code>df.dropna(subset=['column1', 'column2'], how='any')<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This will remove all rows from the DataFrame df that have missing values in either the column1 or column2 columns. The how parameter can be set to &#8216;any&#8217; to remove rows with missing values in any of the specified columns, or to &#8216;all&#8217; to remove rows with missing values in all of the specified columns.<\/p>\n<p>The groupby() method is used to group rows in a DataFrame by a common value. The drop_duplicates() method is used to remove duplicate rows from a DataFrame. 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