skewness
skewness Lexical Profile
skewness Game Scores & Validity
• noun
In statistics and probability theory, a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.
"Household income data typically exhibits positive skewness because a small number of extremely high earners pull the mean above the median."
The quality or state of being oblique, slanted, distorted, or unevenly balanced.
"The carpenter noticed a slight skewness in the doorframe that prevented the door from latching properly."
• Rhymes for skewness
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in English from the adjective 'skew' (from Middle English 'skewen', meaning to turn aside or slip away, via Anglo-Norman from Middle Dutch 'schouwen') combined with the noun-forming suffix '-ness'. Its specialized statistical sense was introduced by the English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1895.