skew
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Meanwhile, inflation figures will be skewed by the agency’s stopgap: Without good data for October, the BLS appears to have penciled in a 0% increase that month.
Several said that workarounds and missing data that the Labor Department employees couldn’t get for this month’s release might have skewed the data downward.
“A contrarian stance: Costco risk skews heavily to the downside,” he said.
From MarketWatch
“Weinerville’s” second season saw the show move to weekday afternoons, but by then the Nickelodeon demographics began skewing older and “Weinerville” was moved to weekday mornings before school.
From Los Angeles Times
The AI auditor, for instance, would perform regular checkups—weekly, monthly or even daily, depending on the industry—to see if the AI systems produced results that were unfairly skewed in some direction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
