# About StatsKit and Reexport

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-statskit-and-reexport/84519>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-statskit-and-reexport/84519 "2022-07-20T08:36:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/freya_the_goddess/32/36835_2.png) [@Freya\_the\_Goddess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Freya_the_Goddess)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-statskit-and-reexport/84519/1 "2022-07-20T08:36:05Z")

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I just want to know the example of using StatsKit for DataFrames…

why would someone install StatsKit if they already have the packages like Distributions.jl or DataFrames.jl ?

Why we need StatsKit with Reexport.

A newbie question…

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**Author:** ![SteffenPL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/steffenpl/32/206270_2.png) [@SteffenPL](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SteffenPL)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-statskit-and-reexport/84519/2 "2022-07-20T10:00:37Z")

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StatsKit is a small helper for those who often start new projects and want to include all their favourite tools in one line. That’s it 😉

When you are learning Julia right now, I would recommend not using StatsKit, and instead, to learn the packages you need one-by-one. In this way you know where which function is coming from.

It might well be that `DataFrames` and `Distributions` is all you need for your project. Then there is no need to bloat it up by including more packages than necessary.

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Reexport makes it possible that the line `using StatsKits` is kind of equivalent to `using Bootstrap CategoricalArrays Clustering ...`