skewness {s20x}

Skewness Statistic

Description

Calculates the skewness statistic of the data in 'x'. Values close to zero correspond to reasonably symmetric data, positive values of this measure indicate right-skewed data whereas negative values indicate left-skewness.

Usage

skewness(x, ...)

Arguments

x

vector containing the data.

...

any other variables to be passed to mean and sd, e.g. na.rm = TRUE.

Value

Returns the value of the skewness.

Examples

##Merger data:
data(mergers.df)
skewness(mergers.df$mergerdays)