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skewness

PURPOSE

SKEWNESS estimates the skewness

SYNOPSIS

function R = skewness(i,DIM)

DESCRIPTION

 SKEWNESS estimates the skewness 

 y = skewness(x,DIM)
   calculates skewness of x in dimension DIM

 DIM    dimension
    1: STATS of columns
    2: STATS of rows
    default or []: first DIMENSION, with more than 1 element

 features:
 - can deal with NaN's (missing values)
 - dimension argument 
 - compatible to Matlab and Octave

 see also: SUMSKIPNAN, STATISTIC

 REFERENCE(S):
 http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

CROSS-REFERENCE INFORMATION

This function calls:

sumskipnan SUMSKIPNAN adds all non-NaN values.

This function is called by:

naninsttest NANINSTTEST checks whether the functions from NaN-toolbox have been