kurtosis {fastmatrix} | R Documentation |
Mardia's multivariate skewness and kurtosis coefficients
Description
Functions to compute measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis
proposed by Mardia (1970),
and
Usage
kurtosis(x)
skewness(x)
Arguments
x |
matrix of data with, say, |
References
Mardia, K.V. (1970). Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis with applications. Biometrika 57, 519-530.
Mardia, K.V., Zemroch, P.J. (1975). Algorithm AS 84: Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis. Applied Statistics 24, 262-265.
Examples
setosa <- iris[1:50,1:4]
kurtosis(setosa)
skewness(setosa)
[Package fastmatrix version 0.5-772 Index]