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Skewness

A measure of the symmetry of a distribution around its mean. Positive values indicate a shift or tail to the right; negative values indicate a shift or tail to the left. Skewness is 0 for a normal distribution.

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where xj is the observation j, N is the total number of observations, x-doublebar is the Average , and knowctr00090004.gifx is the Sample Sigma .


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