Calculate skewness

Calculates skewness of the values of a numeric vector. This uses the same definition of skewness as the "skewness()" function in the "e1071" package where type == 2, which is equivalent to the definition of skewness used in Excel.

Usage

skew(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector.

na.rm

Set TRUE to remove NA values, otherwise returns NA.

Value

A skewness value (scalar).

Examples

x <- runif(20)
skew(x)
#> [1] -0.3006503