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

Plotting the global distribution of skewness in records of scientists’ citations by others ought to produce a symmetrical curve, says Wren, but doesn’t.

From Nature

For example, why do so many climate models fail to simulate the nonlinear processes associated with the SST skewness?

From Nature

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

From Washington Post

The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases in which one or a few points are much larger than the bulk of the data.

From Forbes