[R] skewness and kurtosis in e1071 correct? (correction)

Dirk Enzmann dirk.enzmann at jura.uni-hamburg.de
Tue May 24 14:49:24 CEST 2005


I'm sorry, but my previous message, as often happens, some brackets were 
wrong:

Here are the correct formulas:

sd = 1/n * sum((x-mean(x))^2) # (1)

sd = 1/(n-1) * sum((x-mean(x))^2) # (2)

This also occured in the last paragraph.

Dirk

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