Monday, August 6, 2012

Distribution skewness

Skewness

A distribution is skewed if one of its tails is longer than the other.

  • Negative skewness: the distribution has a long tail in the negative direction. 
  • Symmetric: no skewness. 
  • Positive skewness: the distribution has a long tail in the positive direction.
Examples are presented below.




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