skewness {agricolae} | R Documentation

## Finding the skewness coefficient

### Description

It returns the skewness of a distribution. It is similar to SAS.

### Usage

    skewness(x)

### Arguments

`x` | a numeric vector

### Value

The skewness of x.

### See Also

`kurtosis`

### Examples

    library(agricolae)
    x<-c(3,4,5,2,3,4,NA,5,6,4,7)
    skewness(x)
    # value is 0,3595431, is slightly asimetrica (positive) to the right

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