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cgwtools (version 4.1)

theskew: Calculates the skew of a dataset.

Description

This function is included primarily to support mystat . Skew is the next moment after the variance. The algorithm used here is taken from the R package e1071 .

Usage

theskew(x)

Value

A single scalar, the skew of the dataset

Arguments

x

A vector of data to be evaluated

Author

Carl Witthoft, carl@witthoft.com