se.skew: Standard Error of Skewness

In sur: Companion to "Statistics Using R: An Integrative Approach"

Description

Function to obtain the standard error of the skewness of a distribution of values.

Usage

se.skew(x)

Arguments

x	numeric object containing the values for a variable.

Details

Standard error of skewness is computed on non-missing values using the following equation.

√( 6*N*(N-1) / ((N-2)*(N+1)*(N+3)) )

Value

Standard error of skewness for x.

See Also

skew, skew.ratio

Examples

se.skew(Temp$Temperature[Temp$City == "Springfield"])
se.skew(Temp$Temperature[Temp$City == "SanFrancisco"])

Example output

[1] 0.637302
[1] 0.637302

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