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Skewed Distribution

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Skewed distribution
Probability distribution in which an unequal number of observations lie below (negative skew) or above (positive skew) the mean.

Skewed Distribution
A probability distribution where more data points lie on one side of the mean than the other. This means that the distribution will not form a bell curve.


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This depicts that the focus of financial institutions has been on medium entities," he said and added the primary reason for this skewed distribution was the unorganized way of doing business by small entities.
Given the positively skewed distribution of the composite STI risk score (mode = 0), the STI risk outcome measure was derived by dividing the scale score into quartiles and then dichotomizing it into a comparison between the highest scoring quartile versus all lower scores.
7, the motor domain had a slightly skewed distribution toward higher functioning individuals (skewness = 0.
 
 
 
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