skew: Skewness

In USGS-R/smwrStats: R functions to support statistical methods in water resources

Skewness

Description

Computes the skewness statistic.

Usage

skew(x, na.rm = TRUE, method = "fisher")

Arguments

x	any numeric vector.
na.rm	logical; if TRUE, then remove missing value before computation.
method	the method to use for computing the skew, must be "fisher" or "moments."

Value

a single value representing the skewness of the data in x.

References

Helsel, D.R. and Hirsch, R.M., 2002, Statistical methods in water resources: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, book 4, chap. A3, 522 p.

Examples

skew(c(1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 1.9, 2.5))

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