statsmodels.stats.stattools.medcouple

statsmodels.stats.stattools.medcouple(y, axis=0)

Calculate the medcouple robust measure of skew.

Parameters:

• y (array_like) – Data to compute use in the estimator.

• axis ({int, None}) – Axis along which the medcouple statistic is computed. If None, the entire array is used.

Returns:

mc – The medcouple statistic with the same shape as y, with the specified axis removed.

Return type:

ndarray

Notes

The current algorithm requires a O(N**2) memory allocations, and so may not work for very large arrays (N>10000).

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M. Hubert and E. Vandervieren, “An adjusted boxplot for skewed distributions” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 52, pp. 5186-5201, August 2008.