# k3.linear

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##### Linear Skewness Estimate

Estimates the skewness of a statistic from its empirical influence values.

Keywords
nonparametric
##### Usage
k3.linear(L, strata = NULL)
##### Arguments
L

Vector of the empirical influence values of a statistic. These will usually be calculated by a call to empinf.

strata

A numeric vector or factor specifying which observations (and hence which components of L) come from which strata.

##### Value

The skewness estimate calculated from L.

##### References

Davison, A. C. and Hinkley, D. V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

empinf, linear.approx, var.linear

• k3.linear
##### Examples
# NOT RUN {
#  To estimate the skewness of the ratio of means for the city data.
ratio <- function(d, w) sum(d$x * w)/sum(d$u * w)
k3.linear(empinf(data = city, statistic = ratio))
# }

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