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>SKEW returns an unbiased estimate for skewness of a distribution.</P
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>Note, that this is only meaningful is the underlying distribution really has a third moment.  The skewness of a symmetric (e.g., normal) distribution is zero.</P
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>Strings and empty cells are simply ignored.</P
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>If less than three numbers are given, SKEW returns #DIV/0! error. This function is Excel compatible. </P
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>Let us assume that the cells A1, A2, ..., A5 contain numbers 11.4, 17.3, 21.3, 25.9, and 40.1.  Then</P
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>SKEW(A1:A5) equals 0.976798268.</P
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>        <A
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,         <A
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