SKEWNESS Function

SKEWNESS Function

Returns the skewness

Category: Descriptive Statistics

Syntax

SKEWNESS ( argument,argument,argument, ... )

Arguments

argument

• is numeric. At least three nonmissing arguments are required. Otherwise, the function returns a missing value. The argument list may consist of a variable list, which is preceded by OF.

Examples

SAS Statements	Results
x1=skewness(0,1,1);	-1.732050808
x2=skewness(2,4,6,3,1);	0.5901286564
x3=skewness(2,0,0);	1.7320508076
x4=skewness(of x1-x3);	-0.953097714