Statistical asymmetry

• An oblique or slanting asymmetry

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

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 ...

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

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 ...