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# scipy.stats.jarque_bera

`scipy.stats.``jarque_bera`(x)

  Perform the Jarque-Bera goodness of fit test on sample data.

  The Jarque-Bera test tests whether the sample data has the skewness and kurtosis matching a normal distribution.

  Note that this test only works for a large enough number of data samples (>2000) as the test statistic asymptotically has a Chi-squared distribution with 2 degrees of freedom.

  Parameters: | x : array_like Observations of a random variable.
  Returns: | jb_value : float The test statistic. p : float The p-value for the hypothesis test.

  References

  [R594] | Jarque, C. and Bera, A. (1980) “Efficient tests for normality, homoscedasticity and serial independence of regression residuals”, 6 Econometric Letters 255-259.

  Examples

      >>> from scipy import stats
      >>> np.random.seed(987654321)
      >>> x = np.random.normal(0, 1, 100000)
      >>> y = np.random.rayleigh(1, 100000)
      >>> stats.jarque_bera(x)
      (4.7165707989581342, 0.09458225503041906)
      >>> stats.jarque_bera(y)
      (6713.7098548143422, 0.0)