Source code for chaospy.descriptives.skewness

"""Skewness operator."""
import numpy
import numpoly

from .expected import E
from .standard_deviation import Std


[docs]def Skew(poly, dist=None, **kws): """ The third order statistical moment Kurtosis. Element by element 3rd order statistics of a distribution or polynomial. Args: poly (numpoly.ndpoly, Distribution): Input to take skewness on. dist (Distribution): Defines the space the skewness is taken on. It is ignored if ``poly`` is a distribution. Returns: (numpy.ndarray): Element for element variance along ``poly``, where ``skewness.shape == poly.shape``. Examples: >>> dist = chaospy.J(chaospy.Gamma(1, 1), chaospy.Normal(0, 2)) >>> chaospy.Skew(dist) array([2., 0.]) >>> q0, q1 = chaospy.variable(2) >>> poly = chaospy.polynomial([1, q0, q1, 10*q0*q1-1]) >>> chaospy.Skew(poly, dist) array([nan, 2., 0., 0.]) >>> chaospy.Skew(2., dist) array(nan) """ if dist is None: dist, poly = poly, numpoly.variable(len(poly)) poly = numpoly.set_dimensions(poly, len(dist)) if poly.isconstant(): return numpy.full(poly.shape, numpy.nan) poly = poly - E(poly, dist, **kws) poly = numpoly.true_divide(poly, Std(poly, dist, **kws)) return E(poly**3, dist, **kws)