skew {COINr} | R Documentation |
Calculate skewness
Description
Calculates skewness of the values of a numeric vector. This uses the same definition of skewness as
the "skewness()" function in the "e1071" package where type == 2
, which is equivalent to the definition of skewness used in Excel.
Usage
skew(x, na.rm = FALSE)
Arguments
x |
A numeric vector. |
na.rm |
Set |
Value
A skewness value (scalar).
Examples
x <- runif(20)
skew(x)
[Package COINr version 1.1.14 Index]