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# scipy.stats.bartlett

`scipy.stats.``bartlett`(*args)

  Perform Bartlett’s test for equal variances

  Bartlett’s test tests the null hypothesis that all input samples are from populations with equal variances. For samples from significantly non-normal populations, Levene’s test `levene`_ is more robust.

  Parameters : | sample1, sample2,... : array_like arrays of sample data. May be different lengths.
  Returns : | T : float The test statistic. p-value : float The p-value of the test.

  References

  [R167] | http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda357.htm

  [R168] | Snedecor, George W. and Cochran, William G. (1989), Statistical Methods, Eighth Edition, Iowa State University Press.

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