Compute the skewness of a probability distribution.

ds_skewness(data, x = NULL)

Arguments

data

A numeric vector or data.frame.

x

Column in data.

References

Sheskin, D.J. (2000) Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, Second Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

See also

kurtosis

Examples

# vector ds_skewness(mtcars$mpg)
#> [1] 0.6723771
# data.frame ds_skewness(mtcars, mpg)
#> [1] 0.6723771