significance of skewness

Hello,

I have some experimental data. The distribution of this data is skewed.
I want to know if this skewness is significant. I don't know the
underlying true distribution of the experimental data. Howe can i
proceed (in splus)?

Any help is appreciated.

Antoine van Kampen

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