skew1d: Measure for one-dimensional skewness

In mbgraphic: Measure Based Graphic Selection

Description

A measure for one-dimensional skewness based on quantiles.

Usage

skew1d(x)

Arguments

x	A numeric vector, a numeric matrix or a data frame.

Value

A single value or a vector including the results of skew1d for each variable (in case of numeric matrices or data frames). If variables from data frames are categorical, 'NA' is returned.

Author(s)

Katrin Grimm

See Also

multimod1d, discrete1d, iaunivariate

Examples

data(Election2005)
## Not run: 
skew <- skew1d(Election2005)
maxv <- order(skew,decreasing=TRUE)[1:4]
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
for(i in 1:4){
  hist(Election2005[,maxv[i]], xlab="",breaks=30,
  main=paste(names(Election2005[maxv[i]])))
}


# Explore skewness, multimodality and discreteness within interactive environment.
iaunivariate(Election2005)

## End(Not run)

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