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 \(\scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \!\) where \(\mu_3\) is the third moment about the mean and \(\sigma\) is the standard deviation.

Dictionary definition

SKEWNESS, noun. An oblique or slanting asymmetry.

Wise words

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