Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The property of being skew.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle γ₁=(μ₃)/(σ³),! where μ₃ is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.

More definitions
  • an oblique or slanting asymmetry

Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: skewnesses
Singularskewness
Pluralskewnesses

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Synonyms

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Word family

2 related words
Relatedskew

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