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Associations to the word «Skewness»

Wiktionary

SKEWNESS, noun. The property of being skew.
SKEWNESS, noun. (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as γ1=μ3σ3, where μ3 is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.

Dictionary definition

SKEWNESS, noun. An oblique or slanting asymmetry.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats