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Skewness problem

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  • Subject: [mg62944] Skewness problem
  • From: "Klaus G." <Karl_boehme_9 at msn.com>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 05:10:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Skewness[ {0, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 1}] results in -1.04137.

Reversing the data to {1,4,5...} I expected a different skewness,
because the "tails" are reversed.
But again I get -1.04137.
Is there an error in reasoning?

Klaus G.


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