# Manuals/calci/SKEW

SKEW()

• Parameters are any numbers to calculate the skewness.
• SKEW() returns the skewness of a distribution

## Description

• This function gives the Skewness of a distribution.
• Skewness is a measure of the degree of asymmetry of a distribution.
• A distribution(normal distribution) is symmetry ,it don't have a Skewness.
• In a distribution the left tail is more pronounced than the right tail (towards more negative values) then the function is said to have Negative Skewness.
• If a distribution is skewed to the right, the tail on the curve's right-hand side is longer than the tail on the left-hand side (towards more positive values), then the function is said to have a positive skewness.
• In a Left Skewed Distribution, its
• In a Normal Skewed Distribution, its
• In a Right Skewed Distribution, its .
• In

Where, is the sample standard deviation, represents a sample mean.

• This function will return the result as error when
 1. Any one of the argument is non-numeric.
2. If there are fewer than three data points, or the Sample Standard Deviation is zero.


## Examples

A B C D E
1 0 4 -5 4 1
2 29 9 11 5 2
3 41 11 18 2 3
4 18 10 7 5 5
5 4 5 9 6 6
6 38 9 13 8 11
• =SKEW(B1:B5) = -0.4369344921493
• =SKEW(A1:A6) = -0.21921252920
• =SKEW(C1:C4) = -0.715957010
• =SKEW(D1:D6) = 0
• =SKEW(E1:E6) = 1.16584702768

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