[R] Comparing skewness of two distributions

[Joshua Wiley]

par(mfrow = c(2, 1))
plot(density(rnorm(100)^2))
plot(density(rnorm(100)^2))

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Benjamin Polidore <polidore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two distributions.  Both are left skewed.  Is there a good
> statistical approach to determining if the skew of distribution 1 is
> statistically similar to the skew of distribution 2?
>
> Thanks,
> bp
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