scipy.stats.Uniform.

skewness

Uniform.skewness(*, method=None)

Skewness (standardized third moment)

Parameters:

method{None, ‘formula’, ‘general’, ‘transform’, ‘normalize’, ‘cache’}

Method used to calculate the standardized third moment. Not all methods are available for all distributions. See moment for details.

See also

moment

mean

variance

References

[1]

Skewness, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness

Examples

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Instantiate a distribution with the desired parameters:

>>> from scipy import stats
>>> X = stats.Normal(mu=1., sigma=2.)

Evaluate the skewness:

>>> X.skewness()
0.0
>>> X.skewness() == X.moment(order=3, kind='standardized')
True

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