timeDate (version 290.84)

skewness: Skewness

Description

Functions to compute skewness.

Usage

skewness(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'default':
skewness(x, na.rm = FALSE, method = c("moment", "fisher"), ...)
## S3 method for class 'data.frame':
skewness(x, \dots)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXct':
skewness(x, \dots)
## S3 method for class 'POSIXlt':
skewness(x, \dots)

Arguments

na.rm

a logical. Should missing values be removed?

method

a character string which specifies the method of computation. These are either "moment" or "fisher" The "moment" method is based on the definitions of skewnessfor distributions; these forms

x

a numeric vector or object.

...

arguments to be passed.

Value

• skewness returns the value of the statistics, a numeric value. An attribute which reports the used method is added.

See Also

link{kurtosis}.

Examples

## mean -
## var -
   # Mean, Variance:
   r = rnorm(100)
   mean(r)
   var(r)
   
## skewness -
   skewness(r)