What does skewness measure in a dataset?
- Central tendency
- Dispersion
- Kurtosis
- Symmetry or lack of symmetry
Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. Positive skewness indicates a distribution with an asymmetric tail extending towards more positive values. Negative skewness indicates a distribution with an asymmetric tail extending towards more negative values.
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