Sample Moments — moment • confintr

Calculates central or non-central sample moments.

moment(z, p = 1, central = TRUE, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

z: A numeric vector.
p: Order of moment.
central: Should central moment be calculated? Default is TRUE.
na.rm: Logical flag indicating whether to remove missing values or not. Default is TRUE.

Value

Numeric vector of length 1.

See also

skewness(), kurtosis()

Examples

moment(1:10, p = 1)
#> [1] 0
moment(1:10, p = 1, central = FALSE)
#> [1] 5.5
moment(1:10, p = 2) / stats::var(1:10)
#> [1] 0.9