# cum3

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Percentile

##### Calculate Third Order Cumulants

Calculates an estimate of the third cumulant, or skewness, of a vector. Also, if more than one vector is specified, a product-moment of order 3 is estimated.

Keywords
multivariate, math
##### Usage
cum3(a, b = a, c = a, unbiased = TRUE)
##### Arguments
a

A vector of observations.

b

Another vector of observations, if not supplied it is set to the value of a. If supplied then it must be the same length as a.

c

Another vector of observations, if not supplied it is set to the value of a. If supplied then it must be the same length as a.

unbiased

A logical value indicating whether the unbiased estimator should be used.

##### Details

The unbiased estimator uses a multiplier of n/((n-1)*(n-2)) where n is the sample size, if unbiased is FALSE then a multiplier of 1/n is used. This is multiplied by sum((a-mean(a))*(b-mean(b))*(c-mean(c))) to give the required estimate.

##### Value

The required estimate.

##### Aliases
• cum3
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