How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

[Vani1493]

I am very much confused how to differentiate variable is skewed or not....continuous or catagorical by seeing the skewness values.

please clear my confusion.

thank you

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

@Rick_SAS  wrote many blogs about this statistics.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2020/10/28/sample-skewness-is-biased.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/01/28/skewness-and-kurtosis.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2020/11/09/robust-skewness-kurtosis.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2022/10/03/moments-distributions-sas.html

[Vani1493]

Thank you....one more query please 

 

please let me know why i am getting this error variable race should be either numeric or specified in the class statement when i am trying to create graphs

[Ksharp]

You shoud put RACE in CLASS statement ,like this :

proc logistic data=...........
CLASS RACE ;
model y= RACE .........;
run;

[Vani1493]

i tried, it wont work out...

my code is 

 pls help me...in preparing graph with outcome_1 with Race

[Rick_SAS]

BEFORE the MODEL statement, put

class Race;

[Vani1493]

thank you.. worked.🙂