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Library: xplore
See also: kurtosis

Quantlet: skewness
Description: Computes the skewness for a given vector.

Usage: s = skewness(x)
Input:
x vector
Output:
s scalar

Example:
library("xplore")
randomize(0)
x = normal(100)
skewness(x)

Result:
Contents of s
      [1,] -0.20169



Author: T. Koetter, 19960207 license MD*Tech
(C) MD*TECH Method and Data Technologies, 05.02.2006