skewness | R Documentation |
Computes the skewness.
skewness(x)
x |
a numeric vector containing the values whose skewness is to be computed. NA values are removed in the computation. |
If N = \mathrm{length}(x)
, then the skewness of x
is defined as
N^{-1} \mathrm{sd}(x)^{-3} \sum_i (x_i -
\mathrm{mean}(x))^3.
The skewness of x
.
G. Snedecor, W. Cochran. Statistical Methods, Wiley-Blackwell, 1989
x <- rnorm(100)
skewness(x)
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