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# scipy.stats.skewtest

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

  Tests whether the skew is significantly different from a normal distribution.

  The size of the dataset should be >= 8.

  Parameters: | a : array axis : int or None
  Returns: | (Z-score, : 2-tail Z-probability, ) :

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