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<h1>Skewness of the sample</h1>
<div class="hidden name"><code>skewness.Rd</code></div>
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<p>Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.</p>
<p>When negative: the left tail is longer; the mass of the distribution is concentrated on the right of the figure. When positive: the right tail is longer; the mass of the distribution is concentrated on the left of the figure.</p>
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<pre class="usage"><span class='fu'>skewness</span>(<span class='no'>x</span>, <span class='kw'>na.rm</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>)
<span class='co'># S3 method for default</span>
<span class='fu'>skewness</span>(<span class='no'>x</span>, <span class='kw'>na.rm</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>)
<span class='co'># S3 method for matrix</span>
<span class='fu'>skewness</span>(<span class='no'>x</span>, <span class='kw'>na.rm</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>)
<span class='co'># S3 method for data.frame</span>
<span class='fu'>skewness</span>(<span class='no'>x</span>, <span class='kw'>na.rm</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>)</pre>
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<td><p>a logical value indicating whether <code>NA</code> values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.</p></td>
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