theskew {cgwtools}

Calculates the skew of a dataset.

Description

This function is included primarily to support mystat . Skew is the next moment after the variance. The algorithm used here is taken from the R package e1071 .

Usage

theskew(x)

Arguments

x

A vector of data to be evaluated

Value

A single scalar, the skew of the dataset

Author(s)

Carl Witthoft, [e-mail]