Concept information
Preferred term
skewness
Definition
- Skewness is a measure of the lack of symmetry, or the lopsidedness, a distribution has. In other words, one tail of the distribution is longer than another. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Skewness]
Broader concept
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/skewness
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