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# scipy.stats.mstats.skewtest

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

  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.