scipy.stats.mstats.

skew#

scipy.stats.mstats.skew(a, axis=0, bias=True)[source]#

Computes the skewness of a data set.

Deprecated since version 2.0.0: scipy.stats.mstats.skew is deprecated as of SciPy 2.0.0 and will be removed, along with the scipy.stats.mstats namespace, in SciPy 2.4.0. For similar functionality, use scipy.stats.skew with MArray(s) instead of NumPy masked array(s).

Parameters:

andarray: data
axisint or None, optional: Axis along which skewness is calculated. Default is 0. If None, compute over the whole array a.
biasbool, optional: If False, then the calculations are corrected for statistical bias.

Returns:

skewnessndarray: The skewness of values along an axis, returning 0 where all values are equal.

Notes

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