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skew: Calculate skew for a vector, matrix, or data.frame

Description

Find the skew for each variable in a data.frame or matrix. Unlike skew in e1071, this calculates a different skew for each variable or column of a data.frame/matrix.

Usage

skew(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x
A data.frame or matrix
na.rm
how to treat missing data

Value

  • if input is a matrix or data.frame, skew is a vector of skews

Details

given a matrix or data.frame x, find the skew for each column.

See Also

describe, describe.by, kurtosi

Examples

Run this code
round(skew(attitude),2)

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