Look up: skewness

1. Skewness
   Occurs when a distribution is not symmetrical about its mean. A distribution is symmetrical when its median, mean, and mode are equal. A positively skewed distribution occurs when the mean exceeds the median. A negatively skewed distribution occurs when the mean is less than the median. These condit...
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2. Skewness
   Skewness is defined as asymmetry in the distribution of the sample data values. Values on one side of the distribution tend to be further from the 'middle' than values on the other side.
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3. Skewness
   Skewness defines the degree of asymmetry of the distribution around its central value.Skewness is defined aswheres = standard deviation of xN = total number of values of xSkewness is a unitless parameter known as the third order moment of a distribution. Even if the skewness is other than zero it do...
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4. skewness
   a relative measure of the asymmetry of a frequency distribution as compared to the normal distribution Category: Statistics • the degree of asymmetry, or departure from symmetry, of a distribution. Category: Mathematics
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5. skewness
   An attribute of a distribution. A distribution that is symmetric around its mean has skewness zero, and is 'not skewed'. Skewness is calculated as E[(x-mu)³]/s³ where mu is the mean and s is the standard deviation. Source: Hogg and Craig, p 57 Contexts: statistics
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6. skewness
   (from the article `sedimentary rock`) ...of any grain-size distribution, (3) mean, an estimate of the arithmetic average particle size, (4) sorting or standard deviation, a measure of the ...
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7. Skewness
   Negative skewness means there is a substantial probability of a big negative return. Positive skewness means that there is a greater-than-normal probability of a big positive return.
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8. Skewness
   The degree to which there is a high probability of either a big negative or a big positive return. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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9. Skewness
   Occurs when a distribution is not symmetrical about its mean. A distribution is symmetrical when its median, mean, and mode are equal. A positively skewed distribution occurs when the mean exceeds the median. A negatively skewed distribution occurs when the mean is less than the median. These condit...
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10. Skewness
    coleoptiles, 1,790) In probability theory and statistics, `skewness` is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. The skewness value can be positive or negative, or even undefined. Qualitatively, a negative skew indicates that the tail on the...
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