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Skewness

What is Skewness?

Skewness measures the relative likelihood of observations above and below the mean. The normal distribution has a skewness of zero.

Skewness=E[(xμ)3]E[(xu)2]3

PositiveSkewness

A graph demonstrating a positive skewness.

NegativeSkewness

A graph demonstrating a negative skewness.