se.skew {sur}

Standard Error of Skewness

Description

Function to obtain the standard error of the skewness of a distribution of values.

Usage

se.skew(x)

Arguments

x

numeric object containing the values for a variable.

Details

Standard error of skewness is computed on non-missing values using the following equation.

\sqrt( 6*N*(N-1) / ((N-2)*(N+1)*(N+3)) )

Value

Standard error of skewness for x.

See Also

skew, skew.ratio

Examples

se.skew(Temp$Temperature[Temp$City == "Springfield"])
se.skew(Temp$Temperature[Temp$City == "SanFrancisco"])