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  2. Skewness - Wikipedia

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    The skewness is not directly related to the relationship between the mean and median: a distribution with negative skew can have its mean greater than or less than the median, and likewise for positive skew. [2] A general relationship of mean and median under differently skewed unimodal distribution.

  3. Probability distribution fitting - Wikipedia

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    When the smaller values tend to be farther away from the mean than the larger values, one has a skew distribution to the left (i.e. there is negative skewness), one may for example select the square-normal distribution (i.e. the normal distribution applied to the square of the data values), [1] the inverted (mirrored) Gumbel distribution, [1 ...

  4. Nonparametric skew - Wikipedia

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    where ω is the root mean square deviation from the mode. For a large class of unimodal distributions that are positively skewed the mode, median and mean fall in that order. [41] Conversely for a large class of unimodal distributions that are negatively skewed the mean is less than the median which in turn is less than the mode.

  5. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    This does not look random, but it satisfies the definition of random variable. This is useful because it puts deterministic variables and random variables in the same formalism. The discrete uniform distribution, where all elements of a finite set are equally likely. This is the theoretical distribution model for a balanced coin, an unbiased ...

  6. Half-normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The differential entropy of the half-normal distribution is exactly one bit less the differential entropy of a zero-mean normal distribution with the same second moment about 0. This can be understood intuitively since the magnitude operator reduces information by one bit (if the probability distribution at its input is even).

  7. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    skewness A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. Roughly speaking, a distribution has positive skew (right-skewed) if the higher tail is longer, and negative skew (left-skewed) if the lower tail is longer.

  8. Skew normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The exponentially modified normal distribution is another 3-parameter distribution that is a generalization of the normal distribution to skewed cases. The skew normal still has a normal-like tail in the direction of the skew, with a shorter tail in the other direction; that is, its density is asymptotically proportional to for some positive .

  9. Shape of a probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    Considerations of the shape of a distribution arise in statistical data analysis, where simple quantitative descriptive statistics and plotting techniques such as histograms can lead on to the selection of a particular family of distributions for modelling purposes. The normal distribution, often called the "bell curve" Exponential distribution