skewness                package: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.

_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 skewness is to
          be computed.

   na.rm: a logical value indicating whether 'NA' values should be
          stripped before the computation proceeds.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

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

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

_V_a_l_u_e:

     The skewness of 'x'.

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

     x <- rnorm(100)
     skewness(x)

