skewness

Example Sentences

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Silicon Valley has the least risk-averse people in the world, but they take risk because they like positive skewness.

From Scientific American • Mar. 18, 2023

And negative skewness is the opposite: it’s a small chance of something terrible happening such as a bank run.

From Scientific American • Mar. 18, 2023

That step alone would reduce the skewness of the nation’s post-tax income distribution.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018

While a variance can never be a negative number, the measure of skewness can and this is how we determine if the data are skewed right of left.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

In the distribution of the totals for ages, the mode appears plainly at 16, but with an evident skewness toward the upper ages.

From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Obrien, Francis P.