Definition of skewness Skewness
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What does skewness mean?
WordNet
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| skewness - an oblique or slanting asymmetry | ||
| lopsidedness | ||
| asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | ||
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Wiktionary 
- skewness (Noun)
The property of being skew. - skewness (Noun)
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 .
Part of speech
🔤- skewness, noun, singular of skewnesses.
