Re: Re: Skewness problem
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- Subject: [mg63063] Re: [mg62995] Re: Skewness problem
- From: leigh pascoe <leigh at cephb.fr>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:40:44 -0500 (EST)
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Klaus G. wrote: >Dear Leigh, > >please see >http://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/statistik/download/vorlesungen/empwifo/kapitel_2.pdf >See fig. 5 on page 18: >When you compare the histogram in the middle and the lower histogram it >looks like we have the same sample data, arranged in two different >ways, from left to right and vice versa. >The skewnesses are +0.866 and -0.895. I am confused. > >Klaus > > > > > Dear Klaus, I'm sorry I can't really comment on the .pdf document you posted, my german is essentially non existent. However a histogram for a set of points does not depend on the order in which you write the points, as others have noted in response to your question. Try calculating the skewness of some small samples by hand and plotting the histograms and perhaps you will get a better understanding of these. LP
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- Re: Skewness problem
- From: "Klaus G." <Karl_boehme_9@msn.com>
- Skewness problem