Dispersion vs. Skewness
Dispersionnoun
The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
Dispersionnoun
A process of dispersing.
Dispersionnoun
The degree of scatter of data.
Dispersionnoun
(optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
Dispersionnoun
(medicine) The removal of inflammation.
Dispersionnoun
The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.
Dispersionnoun
The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
Dispersionnoun
spreading widely or driving off
Dispersionnoun
the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
Dispersionnoun
the act of dispersing or diffusing something;
Dispersionnoun
the action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area
Dispersionnoun
the state of being dispersed
Dispersionnoun
the pattern of distribution of individuals within a habitat.
Dispersionnoun
another term for diaspora
Dispersionnoun
a mixture of one substance dispersed in another medium
Dispersionnoun
the separation of white light into colours or of any radiation according to wavelength.
Dispersionnoun
the extent to which values of a variable differ from a fixed value such as the mean.
Skewnessnoun
The property of being skew.
Skewnessnoun
(statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as \scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \! where \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma is the standard deviation.
Skewnessnoun
an oblique or slanting asymmetry
Skewness
In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive, zero, negative, or undefined.
