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Subject: How to assess whether a dataset is generated by a symmetric distribution?
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I have a dataset and wanna to assess if it is generated by 
a symmetric distribution. Except for the usual measure of 
the skewness coefficent, is there functions that can give 
other measurements of symmetry or do some test for 
symmetry? Thanks!