Skewness

This chapter describes common measures of skewness and their properties. These include location-and-scale based measures, quartile and decile-based measures, moment-based measures, measures that use inverse of distribution functions or L-moments. Advantages of Galton’s, Pearson’s, Bowley’s and Kelly’s skewness measures are also discussed. Applications of skewness in bioinformatics, finance, metallurgy, pharmacokinetics (PK), solid mechanics, and signal processing are briefly mentioned.