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variathu
Fluorite | Level 6

i've the following data

x1 x2 x3 x4

10 20 30 40

20 30 40 50

how do i calculate the skewness (using proc means) horizontally? i.e., for 10,20,30,40 and for 20,30,40,50?

 

 

 

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ChrisBrooks
Ammonite | Level 13

If your data is horizontal and you don't want to transpose it just use the skewness function like so (I've added an extra row as your data shows a skewness of zero) otherwise you'll have to do a transposition.

 

data have;
	infile datalines dlm=",";
	input x1 x2 x3 x4;
	datalines;
10,20,30,40
20,30,40,50
2,3,4,90
;
run;

data want;
	set have;
	skew=skewness(x1,x2,x3,x4);
run;

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ChrisBrooks
Ammonite | Level 13

If your data is horizontal and you don't want to transpose it just use the skewness function like so (I've added an extra row as your data shows a skewness of zero) otherwise you'll have to do a transposition.

 

data have;
	infile datalines dlm=",";
	input x1 x2 x3 x4;
	datalines;
10,20,30,40
20,30,40,50
2,3,4,90
;
run;

data want;
	set have;
	skew=skewness(x1,x2,x3,x4);
run;
variathu
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you so much kind sir!!

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