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Skewness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being skew. countable, uncountable

    "A very effective area where we can apply feature engineering is by looking at the skewness of data and then correcting the skewness through normalization of the data. Skewness can be visualized by plotting the data using histograms and density plots."

  2. 2
    an oblique or slanting asymmetry wordnet
  3. 3
    A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle γ₁=(μ₃)/(σ³),! where μ₃ is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From skew + -ness.

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