skewed distribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskewedanddistribution
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skewed
adjective
uk/skjuːd/us/skjuːd/
not accurate ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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(Definition ofskewedanddistributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, because of theskeweddistributionof health-care costs, we used a log transformation of health-care costs.
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Askeweddistributionindicates higher frequency of a phenotype.
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The sample size in this study of 116, with a highlyskeweddistribution, indicated non-normality.
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We use 'habitat specialization' when a species showsskeweddistributionto any habitat.
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For example, a highlyskeweddistributionmight be used, such as a 2 distribution with one degree of freedom.
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Obviously, the original argument presupposes a highlyskeweddistributionof size, which requires a large number of weak countries to flock together against a villain.
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First, the highly restricted variance andskeweddistributionof the flag burning item essentially guarantees that it will be somewhat independent of other tolerance measures.
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There was considerable variation, however, in the level of residual symptoms at 1 year, with askeweddistribution.
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Logistic regression was chosen because of theskeweddistributionof fatigue scores.
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One general property of personal wealth is that it has an extremelyskeweddistribution.
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This also suffers from an inherentlyskeweddistributionof shadings: early in the computation there cannot be any old cells.
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Given theskeweddistribution, the variable is log-transformed before running the regression.
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A non-parametric test shows that this difference is statistically significant (p 0.10), which is noteworthy considering theskeweddistributionof the infringement variable.
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A robust econometric approach addresses issues such as the hierarchical nature of the data and theskeweddistributionof the original data.
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In view of theskeweddistributionof the raw expenditure data, a log transformation of the data was used in the regression.
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The stronglyskeweddistributionindicated in fig. 3 was a feature of many of the variables in the model.
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These data combine the two in detail, to produce a highlyskeweddistributionwhich nevertheless has a mode greater than zero.
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It also reflects theskeweddistributionof illness experienced by cases with a small number experiencing prolonged symptoms.
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The exemplar-based account exploits theskeweddistributionin favour of regular words in the language.
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