skew.ratio {sur}

Skewness Ratio

Description

Returns the ratio of a distribution's skewness value to its standard error of skewness.

Usage

skew.ratio(x)

Arguments

x

numeric object containing the values for a variable.

Details

skew.ratio relies on the functions skew and se.skew to compute the skewness value and standard error of skewness, respectively.

Value

Skewness ratio of x.

See Also

skew, se.skew

Examples

# skew ratio computed two ways
skew.ratio(NELS$achmat12)
skew(NELS$achmat12) / se.skew(NELS$achmat12)