Z Test Statistics Formula & Python Implementation

Formula, Definition, Examples, & Python Implementation

Angel Das
Towards Data Science
7 min readNov 8, 2022

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1. Purpose

A statistical test called the z-test is run on data that roughly fit the normal distribution, i.e., for data that is not skewed. The z-test can be applied to test differences in proportions between two samples or even one sample for assessing…

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Data Science Consultant at IQVIA ANZ || Former Data Science Analyst at Novartis AU, Decision Scientist with Mu Sigma || Ex Teaching Associate Monash University