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Word: skewness (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • statistics A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstylegamma_1 = rac{mu_3}{sigma^3}, ! where mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and sigma is the standard deviation.
  • The property of being skew.

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