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Skew

Skew meaning

To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

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Example sentences (20)

Studies aren’t conclusive, but on average, Uber and Lyft riders, not surprisingly, skew rich and skew young.

Paul T. von Hippel points out: "Many textbooks, teach a rule of thumb stating that the mean is right of the median under right skew, and left of the median under left skew.

Relationship of mean and median The skewness is not strictly connected with the relationship between the mean and median: a distribution with negative skew can have the mean greater than or less than the median, and likewise for positive skew.

Skew fields have an interesting semantic feature: a modifier (here "skew") widens the scope of the base term (here "field").

Skew quadrilaterals A non-planar quadrilateral is called a skew quadrilateral.

Stephenson's skew arch bridge Stephenson's bridge A close-up of the technique 1830 also saw the grand opening of the skew bridge in Rainhill over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Thus a field is a particular type of skew field, and not all skew fields are fields.

For instance, certain studies in women’s health could be prone to socioeconomic bias by virtue of the datasets that skew towards higher-income women more likely to receive routine gynecology care.

It did skew a lot towards emerging markets, which we've noted.

I timed up until the 45 minute mark (not additional time because I felt time wasting in time added would skew the figures) and up until we scored after 79 minutes 56 seconds.

Just be aware that most dating subreddits tend to skew slightly on the pessimistic side.

The ECB could skew PEPP reinvestments towards certain countries and the scheme’s demise leaves it with the Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI), an untested bond buying programme that has a much higher bar for deployment.

The substantial skew is evident, with the top two holdings dominating more than 30% of the allocations.

To be sure, there are many other gleeful opinions that have been shared online about and its Canadian royals storyline, and certainly some that skew harsh and overtly negative.

An apparent influx of corporate money could skew the upcoming election for candidates running for the Orleans Parish School Board, popularly known as OPSB.

As noted previously, based on these inputs, the ranking tends to skew heavily towards public schools, but private schools made a major value comeback this year.

As usual, restaurants are going all out to prepare Thanksgiving feasts worthy of a Manhattan palate, whether you skew more traditional or want a nouveau international twist on your turkey with cranberry sauce.

Clemson games are high-variance, but I feel good about the Tigers’ ability to skew variance.

I found in my long-term testing that occasionally the bidet seat starts to skew slightly out of alignment with the toilet bowl, a problem that is easily fixed by removing the seat from the catchment plate and snapping it back into its correct position.

In China, Morgan Stanley still prefers onshore stocks to their offshore peers given the skew to manufacturing, industrial and clean energy sectors.