skewness
Example Sentences
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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
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
That step alone would reduce the skewness of the nation’s post-tax income distribution.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018
If the probability of success increases from 0.5, then the skewness increases in the lower tail, resulting in a left-skewed distribution.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
