scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest

scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest(a, axis=0, alternative='two-sided')

Tests whether the skew is different from the normal distribution.

Parameters:

aarray_like

The data to be tested

axisint or None, optional

Axis along which statistics are calculated. Default is 0. If None, compute over the whole array a.

alternative{‘two-sided’, ‘less’, ‘greater’}, optional

Defines the alternative hypothesis. Default is ‘two-sided’. The following options are available:

• ‘two-sided’: the skewness of the distribution underlying the sample is different from that of the normal distribution (i.e. 0)

• ‘less’: the skewness of the distribution underlying the sample is less than that of the normal distribution

• ‘greater’: the skewness of the distribution underlying the sample is greater than that of the normal distribution

Added in version 1.7.0.

Returns:

statisticarray_like

The computed z-score for this test.

pvaluearray_like

A p-value for the hypothesis test

Notes

For more details about skewtest, see scipy.stats.skewtest.