skewness

A measure of shape. Provides a number to represent the relative positive or negative skew of a distribution. Perfectly normal distributions have a skewness of 0. Negative numbers indicate left skew, with positive numbers indicating right skew. If you get a skew number less than -1 or greater than 1, it is considered to be approaching extreme.

I was hoping for a table of values which showed .5, 1.0, 1.5, etc and the degree of extremeness of skew, but didn't find one.

R Example

> library(e1071)

> x <- rnorm(100)

> skewness(x)

[1] 0.1277998

rnorm is a random distribution generator.