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Mark Chapman wrote:
> All,
> I am a financial analyst and my statistics knowledge is not vast, so
> forgive
> me if this question seems trivial!
> What is the formula/table I would use to measure whether a
> distribution is
> significantly skewed? I am not looking for a measure of skew, but for an
> indication of whether a given level of skew is significantly different
> from
> nil.
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark Chapman
>
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