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"wang wang" <pligly@gmail.com> wrote in message
<g4fls6$5eo$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> 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!

My TRIPLESTEST, a non-parametric for ditributional symmetry
can be found here (beware of line wraps):

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=19547&objectType=FILE

hth
Jos