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skewness

skewness

English

Noun

skewness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural skewnesses)

The property of being skew.
(statistics) 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.

Translations

property of being skew

Czech: šikmost f
Dutch: scheefte

Portuguese: obliquidade (pt) f

measure of the asymmetry

Czech: šikmost f, koeficient šikmosti m
Dutch: scheefheid
Finnish: vinous (fi)

Portuguese: obliquidade (pt) f, assimetria (pt) f
Spanish: asimetría (es) f
Tagalog: pagkakiwal