Full name
statistics.NormalDist.zscore
Library
statistics
Syntax
statistics.NormalDist.zscore(x)
Description
The zscore method of an object of type statistics.NormalDist returns the z-score of a value (its deviation from the mean of the distribution measured in standard deviations).
Parameters
- x: Value for which you want to obtain the z-score.
Result
The statistics.NormalDist.zscore method returns a value of type float.
Examples
If we start from the following normal distribution:
dist = statistics.NormalDist(mu = 5, sigma = 2)
...we can obtain the z-score of the value x = 8 with the following code:
dist.zscore(8)
1.5
