skewness
IPA: skjˈunʌs
noun
- The property of being skew.
- (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle γ₁=(μ₃)/(σ³),! where μ₃ is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.
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Examples of "skewness" in Sentences
- The skewness of the data set indicated a lack of symmetry in the distribution
- The histogram displayed a positive skewness, showing a longer right tail
- Analyzing the skewness of the data allowed us to better understand its distribution
- We calculated the skewness coefficient to determine the degree of asymmetry in the dataset
- A high skewness value suggests that the data is not normally distributed
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