scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest

scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest(a, axis=0)

Tests whether the skew is different from the normal distribution.

Parameters

aarray

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.

Returns

statisticfloat

The computed z-score for this test.

pvaluefloat

a 2-sided p-value for the hypothesis test

Notes

For more details about skewtest, see stats.skewtest.