Such extreme skewness is new. From Wordnik.com. [The Height of Inequality] Reference
A standard skewness of surfaces is recommended by the study. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
#34 After a brief look at the data, I agree with your point about the skewness. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander et al 2007 « Climate Audit] Reference
If the data have a highly skewed distribution then the skewness is lessened by taking logarithms. From Wordnik.com. [Development indicators and indices] Reference
These data if anything should put to rest any doubts about the skewness of wealth ownership in South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Over the past thirty-five years, and especially over the past ten, that top-end skewness has greatly increased. From Wordnik.com. [The Height of Inequality] Reference
In the distribution of the totals for ages, the mode appears plainly at 16, but with an evident skewness toward the upper ages. From Wordnik.com. [The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects] Reference
The skewness of income logically feeds into the concentrated character of wealth since incomes can be the means to the growth of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
There was a terrible skewness to exit poll answers in states and the hypothesis the poll conductors provided turned out not to be valid. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference
This assumption has been found to be reasonable because of the control of material properties and positive skewness of known load distribution curves. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January - Telic Thoughts] Reference
Individual models differ from observational results in a large variety of measurements, such as standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, and normality. From Wordnik.com. [Gavin vs Kaufmann « Climate Audit] Reference
The sketchiness of an individual is measured, like the skewness of any given real-valued variable, by the combination of several dimensions of behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Pak: Pak's Co-Efficient of Sketchiness] Reference
A more meaningful comparison with observations is to compare such things as the range, average, skewness, kurtosis, and normality of the resulting model temperature datasets. From Wordnik.com. [Gavin vs Kaufmann « Climate Audit] Reference
Further to #36: Thinking about this some more, the options point implies that we are interested not just in the mean and variance of the distribution but also the “tails” — skewness, kurtosis etc. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Browning: Numerical Climate Models « Climate Audit] Reference
I would guess that a chi square goodness of fit test or a kurtosis/skewness test for normality would not eliminate a Poisson and/or a normal distribution as applying here without the sinusoidal correction. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference
I am more familiar with a chi squared goodness of fit test of the binned distribution compared to that for a nomal distribution and/or something like a Jarque-Bera test based on the sample kurtosis and skewness. From Wordnik.com. [Willis on Santer et al 2006 « Climate Audit] Reference
Education and learning How to interpret skewness say -.169. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
Our US economists make the very interesting point (similar to Marc Faber) that peaks of income skewness?. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Planet.com] Reference
Most advanced economic analysis models study data for skewness and incorporate this into their calculations. From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
If we dropped the largest 50 banks, the kurtosis would increase by much less and the skewness would fall instead of increasing. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Because D2 includes information about both the variance and skewness of the distribution, it is expected to be more sensitive than D. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Changed the formulas used for calculating sample skewness and sample kurtosis to match the formulas used in statistical software such as R. From Wordnik.com. [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Reference
And I am trying to think whether Phoenix Nest structurally will impact the distribution or the skewness of ARPU, I don't think there is any reason. From Wordnik.com. [China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Fold changes in abaecin and defensin gene expression were box-transformed, and hymenoptaecin zero-skewness log-transformed to fit the data to a normal distribution. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Most sets of data, including stock prices and asset returns, have either positive or negative skew rather than following the balanced normal distribution (which has a skewness of zero). From Wordnik.com. [Safehaven] Reference
It is also important to note that although mean path length is used as a measure in biological networks, the reader should keep in mind that as the data are scale-free, so there is skewness. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Studies have exposed serious departures from the price process fundamental to Black-Scholes: skewness, excess kurtosis (i.e., concentration of prices around the mean), serial correlation, and time varying volatilities. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"My Department will very soon be involved in settling new, emergent farmers on state-owned land, significantly correcting the current skewness in land occupation. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
What is with the massive skewness. From Wordnik.com. [When is an Upper Confidence Limit a Lower Confidence Limit? « Climate Audit] Reference
At the same time, standard deviation and skewness of the distribution increase dramatically (. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Indeed, the mean skewness of the discharge density histograms was not changed by ghrelin (supporting. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
"Options traders use a pricing formula which they adapt by fudging and changing the tails and skewness by varying one parameter, the standard deviation of a Gaussian. From Wordnik.com. [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference
Market corrects for any skewness. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
D) mean, (E) standard deviation, (F) skewness. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
A) mean, (B) standard deviation and c skewness. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
· Statistical analysis: mean, median, standard error, variance, skewness, kurtosis. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, sum, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, quartiles, skewness, kurtosis, etc.). From Wordnik.com. [20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com] Reference
), without changing the skewness of the interval distribution (data not shown), consistent with the results from extracellular recordings. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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