sixth SciMax Toolbox skewness_bernoulli

SciMax Toolbox >> skewness

skewness

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

skewness (list)
skewness(matrix)

Description

The skewness coefficient, defined as

n
====
1     \          _ 3
----    >    (x - x)
3   /       i
n s    ====
i = 1
Example:

(%i1) load (descriptive)$
(%i2) load (numericalio)$
(%i3) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
(%i4) skewness (s1), numer;
(%o4)                  .009196180476450306
(%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
(%i6) skewness (s2);
(%o6) [.1580509020000979, .2926379232061854, .09242174416107717,
                            .2059984348148687, .2142520248890832]

See also functions , and .

sixth SciMax Toolbox skewness_bernoulli