Skewness

4. Calculate skewness, which is the

2. Subtract Mean 3. Raise each of these sum of the deviations from the mean,
from each Raw deviations from the raise to the third power, divided by
1. List Raw Score. Aka, mean to the third power number of cases minus 1, times the
Scores in a Deviations from and sum. Aka: Sum of standard deviation raised to the third
column the mean third moment deviations power.

y (y - M) (y - M)3
8.04 0.54 0.16
6.95 -0.55 -0.17
7.58 0.08 0.00
8.81 1.31 2.24
8.33 0.83 0.57
9.96 2.46 14.87
7.24 -0.26 -0.02
4.26 -3.24 -34.04
10.84 3.34 37.23
4.82 -2.68 -19.27
5.68 -1.82 -6.04
3
sum = ∑y = 82.51 0.00 -4.46 sum = ∑deviations
mean = (∑y)/n = M 7.50 83.65 = (n-1) stdev3
st dev = √var 2.03 -0.0533 = skewness

Calculating Skewness:
1. First, calculate the mean and standard deviation
2. Subtract the mean from each raw score and cube (i.e., raise to the third power)
3. Sum the cubed deviations.
4. Multiply the number of scores minus 1 times the cubed standard deviation (i.e., raised to the third power).
5. Skewness = step 3 divided by step 4