Jarque-Bera Test with Python

John DeJesus
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 5, 2022

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Having your data follow a normal distribution is great since it would allow you to take advantage of all the benefits a normal distribution provides. But how do we know our data is following a normal distribution? That is where the Jarque-Bera Test comes in. In this article, we will learn about the Jarque-Bera Test, how we can apply it to our data in Python with Scipy, some quick practice, and create the test statistic equation from scratch.

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