• Skewness

    Full definition of skewness

    Noun

    skewness

    (countable and uncountable; plural skewnesss)
    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 \scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \! where
    \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma is the standard deviation.
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