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Meaning of "skewness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SKEWNESS

skewness  [ˈskjuːnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKEWNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Skewness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SKEWNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Skewness

In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive or negative, or even undefined. The qualitative interpretation of the skew is complicated. For a unimodal distribution, negative skew indicates that the tail on the left side of the probability density function is longer or fatter than the right side – it does not distinguish these shapes. Conversely, positive skew indicates that the tail on the right side is longer or fatter than the left side. In cases where one tail is long but the other tail is fat, skewness does not obey a simple rule. For example, a zero value indicates that the tails on both sides of the mean balance out, which is the case both for a symmetric distribution, and for asymmetric distributions where the asymmetries even out, such as one tail being long but thin, and the other being short but fat. Further, in multimodal distributions and discrete distributions, skewness is also difficult to interpret. Importantly, the skewness does not determine the relationship of mean and median.

Definition of skewness in the English dictionary

The definition of skewness in the dictionary is the quality or condition of being skew.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SKEWNESS


aepyornis
ˌiːpɪˈɔːnɪs
archaeornis
ˌɑːkɪˈɔːnɪs
blueness
ˈbluːnɪs
cornice
ˈkɔːnɪs
furnace
ˈfɜːnɪs
Furness
ˈfɜːnɪs
harness
ˈhɑːnɪs
ichthyornis
ˌɪkθɪˈɔːnɪs
Kiwanis
kɪˈwɑːnɪs
lenis
ˈliːnɪs
newness
ˈnjuːnɪs
notornis
nəʊˈtɔːnɪs
ornis
ˈɔːnɪs
penis
ˈpiːnɪs
rawness
ˈrɔːnɪs
soreness
ˈsɔːnɪs
Souness
ˈsuːnɪs
Tunis
ˈtjuːnɪs
unharness
ʌnˈhɑːnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SKEWNESS

sketchiness
sketching book
sketching pad
sketchy
sketted
sketting
skeuomorph
skeuomorphic
skeuomorphism
skew
skew arch
skew symmetric matrix
skew symmetry
skew-eyed
skewback
skewbacked
skewbald
skewed
skewer
skewwhiff

WORDS THAT END LIKE SKEWNESS

askewness
awareness
callowness
darkness
fallowness
fewness
fitness
happiness
hollowness
in the wilderness
lowness
mellowness
narrowness
nowness
sallowness
shallowness
slowness
thickness
wellness
yellowness

Synonyms and antonyms of skewness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «skewness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SKEWNESS

Find out the translation of skewness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of skewness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «skewness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偏度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asimetría
570 millions of speakers

English

skewness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तिरछापन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإلتواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

асимметрии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assimetria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বক্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

asymétrie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Skewness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schiefe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

歪度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

왜도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Skewness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

skewness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோணல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचित्रपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çarpıklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

asimmetria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skośność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

асиметрії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asimetrie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασυμμετρία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skeefheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skevheten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjevhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of skewness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SKEWNESS»

The term «skewness» is regularly used and occupies the 77.587 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SKEWNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about skewness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKEWNESS»

Discover the use of skewness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to skewness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inside Volatility Arbitrage: The Secrets of Skewness
Until this book, I was at a loss for an answer.
Alireza Javaheri, 2011
2
Handbook of Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology
Normal Positive Skewness Negative Skewnes Positive Kurtosis Negative Kurtosis Figure 5.1 Normal distribution, distributions with skewness, and distributions with kurtosis. Reprinted with permission of Tabachnick and Fidell ( 200 Ib), Using ...
Irving B. Weiner, John A. Schinka, Wayne F. Velicer, 2003
3
Statistics Using SPSS: An Integrative Approach
X (X - X)3 X - X 63 6.17 234.89 64 7.17 368.60 61 4.17 72.51 55 1.83 6.13 49 7.83 480.05 Total: 256.08 N a(Xi-X)3 12 -256.08 The skewness = * (N-1)(N-2) ( SD)3 (11)(10) 5.393 =-.178 = 6N(N - 1) 6(12)(11) (10)(13)(15) The standard error of ...
Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz, 2008
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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making
84 Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics FIGURE 3.11 Mean Mode Mean Mean Mode Relationship of Mean, Median, and Mode Median Mode (a) Symmetric distribution (no skewness) (c) Positively skewed (b) Negatively skewed Median Median ...
Ken Black, 2011
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Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using SPSS
64 7.17 368.60 61 4.17 72.51 55 -1.83 -6.13 49 -7.83 -480.05 Total: -256.08 N £( X-*)3 12 -256.08 ( , ,, The skewness = ^^ :— — = x — = -0.1 78 (N-1)(N-2) (SD)3 ( 11)00) 5.393 , . . , . | 6N(N - 1) I 6(12)(11) The standard error of the skewness = J  ...
Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz, 2002
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Statistical Methods for Health Care Research
There are no measures of variability for nominal data in common use (Weisberg, 1992). MEASURES OF SKEWNESS OR SYMMETRY In addition to central tendency and variability, symmetry is an important characteristic of a distribution.
Barbara Hazard Munro, 2005
7
Business Statistics
Figure 5.1 Comparison of Three Data Sets Differing in Shape x = Me = Mo (a) Symmetrical Distribution x Me Mo (c) Negatively Skewed Distribution From the above discussion, two points of difference emerge between variation and skewness: ...
J.K. Sharma, 2007
8
Statistical Analyses for Language Assessment
The two statistics that provide this information are the indices of skewness and kurtosis. Thus, in addition to visually inspecting frequency polygons of score distributions for skewness and kurtosis, statistics for precisely describing the degree of ...
Lyle F. Bachman, 2004
9
Sand and Sandstone
Coarse Fine SKEWNESS: ZERO DISAGGRHIATION BY BREAKAGE ALONG CRYSTAL BOUNDARIES LOSS OR ... Skewness. The asymmetry of a distribution is measured by skewness and is determined by the relative importance of the tails ...
F. J. Pettijohn, 1987
10
Applied Statistics for Public Policy
Skewness measures the symmetry (or lack of symmetry) of a data set around the mean. It describes how much a given distribution of data differs from the perfectly symmetrical or normal bell-shaped curve.5 Often, a distribution is not symmetric,  ...
Brian P. Macfie, Philip M. Nufrio, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKEWNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term skewness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Low Volatility Anomaly: Lottery Preferences
This article hypothesizes that a well-chronicled cognitive bias - skewness or lottery preferences - contributes to the Low Volatility Anomaly. Like previous pieces ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
2
Expected Skewness And Momentum
Motivated by the time-series insights of Daniel and Moskowitz (2014), we investigate the link between expected skewness and momentum in the cross-section. «ValueWalk, May 15»
3
Currency Investing Research: Good Carry, Bad Carry Trades
The good trades exhibit higher Sharpe ratios and slightly negative or even positive skewness, in contrast to the bad trades that have both substantially lower ... «ValueWalk, May 15»
4
Time to Hit the Brakes on Momentum Investing?
Inspired by their work, this paper proposes skewness-enhanced momentum strategies, which double-sort stocks based on both skewness and past performance ... «Equities.com, May 15»
5
Analyst Forecast Skewness And Cross Section Stock Returns
In the paper, we show a significant economic linkage between analyst EPS forecast skewness and cross section stock returns. The effect on stock return of our ... «ValueWalk, May 15»
6
Momentum Investing: Skewness-Enhanced Momentum Yields …
Motivated by the time-series insights of Daniel and Moskowitz (2014), we investigate the link between expected skewness and momentum in the cross-section. «ValueWalk, May 15»
7
Morgan Stanley Quant Analysis Considers Skewness and Kurtosis …
They consider a forecast method that uses returns asymmetry, or skewness, and fat tails, or kurtosis, and combines these formula factors with expected return ... «ValueWalk, May 15»
8
Negative Yields And Asset Allocation
It shows the skewness/asymmetry of monthly returns of government bonds of several tenors (2/5 and 10 years). If returns were following a Normal distribution ... «Seeking Alpha, Apr 15»
9
8 Tata cos' mcap < Motherson: Decoding Tata Grp's skewness
The market capitalization of eight of the Tata Group's smallest listed firms combined shows it is smaller than that of automotive products' manufacturer Motherson ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jan 15»
10
Alibaba's Ma vs. Berkshire's Buffett; Lottery vs. Insurance: Saft
At the heart of all this is a concept called skewness, an ugly word for a simple concept. Skewness is a measure of asymmetrical outcomes, or in an investment ... «Insurance Journal, Sep 14»

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