skewness {npde}R Documentation

Skewness

Description

Computes the skewness.

Usage

skewness(x)

Arguments

x a numeric vector containing the values whose skewness is to be computed. NA values are removed in the computation.

Details

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

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

Value

The skewness of x.

Examples

x <- rnorm(100)
skewness(x)

[Package npde version 1.2 Index]