An oblique or slanting asymmetry

• Statistical asymmetry

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an oblique or slanting asymmetry [syn: lopsidedness ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from skew + -ness .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In probability theory and statistics , skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real -valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive or negative, or even undefined. The qualitative interpretation ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being skew. 2 (context statistics English) 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 ...