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skewness

Skewness

Description

Computes the skewness.

Usage

skewness(x)

Arguments

`x`	a numeric vector containing the values whose skewness is to be computed. NA values are removed in the computation.

Details

If N = length(x), then the skewness of x is defined as

N^(-1) sd(x)^(-3) sum_i (x_i - mean(x))^3.

Value

The skewness of x.

References

G. Snedecor, W. Cochran. Statistical Methods, Wiley-Blackwell, 1989

Examples

x <- rnorm(100)
skewness(x)

npde

Normalised Prediction Distribution Errors for Nonlinear Mixed-Effect Models

v3.1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Emmanuelle Comets [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9150-9886>), Karl Brendel [ctb], Thi Huyen Tram Nguyen [ctb], Romain Leroux [ctb], France Mentre [ctb]

Initial release

2021-04-07