skewType: Skewness Type

View source: R/skewType.R

skewTypeR Documentation

Skewness Type

Description

Gets the type of skewness

Usage

skewType(skew)

Arguments

skew

numeric

Details

Skewness is a measure of asymmetry of a distribution.

A distribution can either have negative skew, no skew or positive skew. A symmetric distribution will always have no skew but the reverse relationship does not always hold.

Value

Returns one of 'negative skew', 'no skew' or 'positive skew'.

Examples

skewType(1)
skewType(0)
skewType(-1)

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