skewness {npde}

Skewness

Description

Computes the skewness.

Usage

skewness(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector containing the values whose skewness is to be computed. NA values are removed in the computation.

Details

If $N = \mathrm{length}(x)$, then the skewness of $x$ is defined as

$N^{-1} \mathrm{sd}(x)^{-3} \sum_i (x_i - \mathrm{mean}(x))^3.$

Value

The skewness of x.

References

G. Snedecor, W. Cochran. Statistical Methods, Wiley-Blackwell, 1989

Examples

x <- rnorm(100)
skewness(x)