skewness: Sample Skewness

In optimStrat: Choosing the Sample Strategy

Description

Calculate the sample skewness.

Usage

skewness(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector.
na.rm	a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Details

Compute the sample skewness of x as

(1/N)(Σ (x_i - x_bar)^3) / (((1/N)Σ (x_i - x_bar)^2)^(3/2))

Value

A vector of length one giving the sample skewness of x.

Examples

x<- rnorm(1000)
skewness(x)

optimStrat documentation built on Nov. 11, 2020, 5:07 p.m.