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Word of the Day Tuesday, June 9, 2026

skewness

/skjuːnɛs/ noun · British & US
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What does skewness mean?

noun

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. In a perfectly symmetrical distribution, the skewness is zero.

Example

"The researcher calculated the skewness of the data to determine if it was normally distributed."

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