Skewed Distributions: How to Memorize Them
December 31, 2008 by admin
Positive and negative skewed distributions: having a hard time remembering which is which? How’s this for a mnemonic: use your feet. As you can see from the image below, your left foot is negatively skewed and your right foot is positively skewed. The “skew” part of a graph is the smaller part of the curve, so your little toe is the skew part. The answer to skew questions is right under your…whole body!
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