What is "skewness" and why is it such an important concept to understand when looking at the distribution of a dataset? What statistics can we calculate to help us understand whether there is skewness in our data or not?
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In other words, it tells us how much a distribution deviates from being perfectly symmetrical. A perfectly symmetrical distribution has a skewness of zero. Skewness is an important concept to understand because it can affect the interpretation of statistical Show more…
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