skewness

Meaning

Noun

• The property of being skew.
• A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as $\backslash scriptstyle\backslash gamma\_1\; =\; \backslash frac\{\backslash mu\_3\}\{\backslash sigma^3\},\; \backslash !$ where $\backslash mu\_3$ is the third moment about the mean and $\backslash sigma$ is the standard deviation.

Origin

• skew + -ness