

skewness(e1071)                              R Documentation

_S_k_e_w_n_e_s_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n_:

     Computes the skewness of the values of `x'.

     If N = length(x), then the skewness of x is defined as

            N^(-1) sd(x)^(-3) sum_i (x_i - mean(x))^3

_U_s_a_g_e_:

     skewness(x, na.rm=FALSE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s_:

       x: a numeric vector containing the values whose skew-
          ness is to be computed.

   na.rm: a logical value indicating whether NA values
          should be stripped before the computation pro-
          ceeds.

_V_a_l_u_e_:

     Returns the skewness of x.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s_:

     x<-rnorm(100)
     skewness(x)

