A ___________ skewness indicates that the data distribution is skewed to the left.
- Any of these
- Negative
- Positive
- Zero
Negative skewness refers to a distribution where the left tail is longer or fatter than the right tail. In such distributions, the majority of the values (including the median and the mode) tend to be greater than the mean.
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