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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character or state of being skew. Specifically: In biometry: The property of exhibiting skew variation. See variation.
- n. The numerical expression of skew variation; asymmetry, measured by the ratio a = D/
σ , where D is the distance (mean, mode) andσ is the index of variability. - n. In mathematics, the degree of disturbance of symmetry in a curve.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being skew.
- n. 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, \! where \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma is the standard deviation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an oblique or slanting asymmetry
Etymologies
- Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.
Examples
“So while I could pass vocabulary quizzes - I understood "skewness" - I was left to guess when questions required computation.”
“Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and skewness of the pre – tax income distribution, the volatility of income (perhaps because of trade shocks), the social costs of taxation and the expected income mobility of the median voter.”
“Those who tend to be instrumental in creating intellectual property do well get paid in the form of good salaries and company options, but the skewness on the side of "professional managerial talent" is downright disturbing and is getting worse.”
Ideas and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“This assumption has been found to be reasonable because of the control of material properties and positive skewness of known load distribution curves.”
“To get a better picture, it is necessary to calculate the various percentiles (that is 5%, 15%, 50% or the median, 85%, etc.), the variance (the variation observed in the data) and the skewness (the shape of the distribution) among others.”
“The sketchiness of an individual is measured, like the skewness of any given real-valued variable, by the combination of several dimensions of behavior -- communication based on technicality, obfuscation, ambiguity, tonality, diversion, digression, and ratio of chocolate chips to dough.”
The Huffington Post: Jane Pak: Pak's Co-Efficient of Sketchiness
“The sketchiness of an individual is measured, like the skewness of any given real-valued variable, by the combination of several dimensions of behavior.”
The Huffington Post: Jane Pak: Pak's Co-Efficient of Sketchiness
“Over the past thirty-five years, and especially over the past ten, that top-end skewness has greatly increased.”
“If the data have a highly skewed distribution then the skewness is lessened by taking logarithms.”
“I would guess that a chi square goodness of fit test or a kurtosis/skewness test for normality would not eliminate a Poisson and/or a normal distribution as applying here without the sinusoidal correction.”
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