Skewness Statistic — skewness • s20x

Calculates the skewness statistic of the data in 'x'. Values close to zero correspond to reasonably symmetric data, positive values of this measure indicate right-skewed data whereas negative values indicate left-skewness.

Usage

skewness(x, ...)

Arguments

x: vector containing the data.
...: any other variables to be passed to mean and sd, e.g. na.rm = TRUE.

Value

Returns the value of the skewness.

Note

Deprecated in s20x 3.4.0. summaryStats() still reports skewness.

Examples


## Merger data:
data(mergers.df)
skewness(mergers.df$mergerdays)
#> Warning: skewness() is deprecated; summaryStats() still reports skewness.
#> [1] 1.67523