skewness

  1. Noun.  The property of being skew.
  2. Noun.  (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstylegamma_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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