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Skewness

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Skewness
Negative skewness means there is a substantial probability of a big negative return. Positive skewness means that there is a greater-than-normal probability of a big positive return.


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In most other oil provinces, there is a noticeable skewness in the distribution of field sizes, e.
The Kurtosis and Skewness statistics indicate that index returns series are leptokurtic and have an asymmetric distribution that rejects significantly the null hypothesis of normality for all the index returns series.
We tested this notion by viewing the skewness of the responses against the actual amount of IPO and M&A transactions.
 
 
 
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