skewness
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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
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
That step alone would reduce the skewness of the nation’s post-tax income distribution.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2018
Negative values for the skewness indicate data that are skewed left and positive values for the skewness indicate data that are skewed right.
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 Francis P. Obrien
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