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scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest¶
- scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest(a, axis=0)[source]¶
Tests whether the skew is different from the normal distribution.
Parameters: a : array
The data to be tested
axis : int or None, optional
Axis along which statistics are calculated. Default is 0. If None, compute over the whole array a.
Returns: statistic : float
The computed z-score for this test.
pvalue : float
a 2-sided p-value for the hypothesis test
Notes
For more details about skewtest, see stats.skewtest.