pandas.Series.skew

Series.skew(*, axis=0, skipna=True, numeric_only=False, **kwargs)

Return unbiased skew over requested axis.

Normalized by N-1.

Parameters:

axis{index (0)}

Axis for the function to be applied on. For Series this parameter is unused and defaults to 0.

For DataFrames, specifying axis=None will apply the aggregation across both axes.

Added in version 2.0.0.

skipnabool, default True

Exclude NA/null values when computing the result.

numeric_onlybool, default False

Include only float, int, boolean columns.

**kwargs

Additional keyword arguments to be passed to the function.

Returns:

scalar or scalar

Value containing the calculation referenced in the description.

See also

Series.skew

Return unbiased skew over requested axis.

Series.var

Return unbiased variance over requested axis.

Series.std

Return unbiased standard deviation over requested axis.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
>>> s.skew()
0.0

With a DataFrame

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 3], 'b': [2, 3, 4], 'c': [1, 3, 5]},
...                   index=['tiger', 'zebra', 'cow'])
>>> df
        a   b   c
tiger   1   2   1
zebra   2   3   3
cow     3   4   5
>>> df.skew()
a   0.0
b   0.0
c   0.0
dtype: float64

Using axis=1

>>> df.skew(axis=1)
tiger   1.732051
zebra  -1.732051
cow     0.000000
dtype: float64

In this case, numeric_only should be set to True to avoid getting an error.

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 3], 'b': ['T', 'Z', 'X']},
...                   index=['tiger', 'zebra', 'cow'])
>>> df.skew(numeric_only=True)
a   0.0
dtype: float64