skewness              package:agricolae              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

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

_U_s_a_g_e:

     skewness(x)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: a numeric vector

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

      x : The skewness of x

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'kurtosis '

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

     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

