Measures of Shape - Skewness

Measures of shape to give a detailed evaluation of data. Explains the amount and direction of skew. Kurotsis explains how tall and sharp the central peak is. Skewness has no units: but a number, like a z score

ExpSkew(x, type)

Arguments

x	A numeric object or data.frame
type	a character which specifies the method of computation. Options are "moment" or "sample"

Value

ExpSkew returns Skewness values

Author

dubrangala

Examples

ExpSkew(mtcars,type="moment")
#>              mpg      disp        hp      drat        wt      qsec    carb
#> moment 0.6404399 0.4002724 0.7614356 0.2788734 0.4437855 0.3870456 1.10213
ExpSkew(mtcars,type="sample")
#>              mpg      disp        hp      drat        wt      qsec     carb
#> sample 0.6723771 0.4202331 0.7994067 0.2927802 0.4659161 0.4063466 1.157091