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# scipy.stats.mstats.normaltest

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

  Tests whether skew and/or kurtosis of dataset differs from normal curve.

  Parameters: | a : array axis : int or None
  Returns: | (Chi^2 score, : 2-tail probability) Based on the D’Agostino and Pearson’s test that combines skew and : kurtosis to produce an omnibus test of normality. : D’Agostino, R. B. and Pearson, E. S. (1971), “An Omnibus Test of : Normality for Moderate and Large Sample Size,” Biometrika, 58, 341-348 : D’Agostino, R. B. and Pearson, E. S. (1973), “Testing for departures from : Normality,” Biometrika, 60, 613-622 :

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