skewness: Skewness Function

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Description

This function calculates the skewness of a data with optional bias correction. The skewness is a measure of the symmetry of a distrbution. A negative skewness means the data is left skewed or has a fat left tail. The converse is true for a positive skew.

Usage

skewness(x, finite = TRUE)

Arguments

x	Data vector.
finite	Should the finite sample correction (bias correction) be used? Defaults to TRUE.

Examples

data<-c(rnorm(15,0,1),rnorm(21,5,1))
hist(data)
skewness(data,TRUE)

Example output

[1] -0.2202224

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