medcouple {litteR}

Medcouple

Description

Robust statistic that quantifies the skewness of univariate distributions.

Usage

medcouple(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
medcouple(x, ...)

Arguments

x

numeric vector

...

further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

medcouple (numeric vector of length 1).

Methods (by class)

• medcouple(default): default method

Note

This is a naive, but robust en simple implementation. For a more efficient implementation see package robustbase and the references section below.

References

Brys, G., M. Hubert, A. Struyf, 2004. A Robust Measure of Skewness. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 13: 996-1017. doi:10.1198/106186004X12632.