How does skewness affect the relationship between the mean, median, and mode of a distribution?
- Changes the relationship
- Increases the standard deviation
- No effect
- Reduces the kurtosis
Skewness affects the relationship between the mean, median, and mode. In a positively skewed distribution, the mean is usually greater than the median, which is greater than the mode. In a negatively skewed distribution, the mode is usually greater than the median, which is greater than the mean.
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