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Since 1.3.0 Calculate the skewness from a two-dimensional statistical aggregate for the given dimension. For example, skewness_y() calculates the skewness for all the values of the y variable, independent of values of the x variable. The skewness is the third statistical moment. It is a measure of asymmetry in a data distribution.
skewness_y(
  summary StatsSummary2D,
  [ method TEXT ]
) RETURNS DOUBLE PRECISION
skewness_x(
  summary StatsSummary2D,
  [ method TEXT ]
) RETURNS DOUBLE PRECISION

Arguments

NameTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
summaryStatsSummary2D-The statistical aggregate produced by a stats_agg call
methodTEXTsample-The method used for calculating the skewness. The two options are population and sample, which can be abbreviated to pop or samp

Returns

ColumnTypeDescription
skewness_y | skewness_xDOUBLE PRECISIONThe skewness of the values in the statistical aggregate

Samples

Calculate the skewness of a sample containing the integers from 0 to 100:
SELECT skewness_x(stats_agg(data, data))
  FROM generate_series(0, 100) data;
skewness_x
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