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skew
  1. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  2. (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. distortion, misrepresentation, bias, falsification, perversion, coloring, colouring, misreporting, misstatement, slant, twisting, garbling, manipulation, prejudice, spin, travesty, alteration, change, doctoring, exaggeration, tampering, tinkering, baloney, crock, falsehood, imbalance, jazz, jive, lie, line, misinterpretation, tall story, BS, slope, gradient, pitch, cant, grade, angle, rake, tilt, lean, ramp, steepness, camber, diagonal, leaning, abruptness, bend … more
skewness
  1. The property of being skew.
  2. (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as
  3. Synonyms:
      4. asymmetry, imbalance, unevenness, inequality, lopsidedness, irregularity, crookedness, disproportionateness, dissymmetry, lack of balance … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The skewness of the perceived severity distribution for each felony drug offense was examined.”
      “The resulting sample appears highly representative and shows little skewness.”
      “Sample means, trimmed means, medians, standard deviations, minimums, maximums, skewness and kurtosis are reported.”
skewing
  1. The act of making something skewed; an alteration in a particular direction.
skewedness
  1. The quality of being skewed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lopsidedness, imbalance, unevenness, disproportionateness, crookedness, irregularity, wonkiness, asymmetry, one-sidedness, disproportion, inequality, inequity, unbalance, instability, disequilibrium, disequilibration, disparity, discrepancy, difference, overrepresentation, misproportion, lack of proportion, astasia, inconsistency, imparity, dissymmetry, skewness, insufficiency, inadequacy, lack of balance, contrast, variation, variance, polarity, gap, gulf, bias, unfairness, split, breach, partiality, shortcoming, lack of harmony, top-heaviness, lack of relation … more
skewnesses
  1. plural of skewness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. asymmetries, imbalances, unevennesses, inequalities, lopsidednesses, irregularity, crookednesses, disproportionateness, dissymmetries
skewings
  1. plural of skewing
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