SKEW definition: to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. See examples of skew used in a sentence.
The meaning of SKEW is to take an oblique course. How to use skew in a sentence.
For a unimodal distribution (a distribution with a single peak), negative skew commonly indicates that the tail is on the left side of the distribution, and positive skew indicates that the tail is on the right.
SKEW meaning: 1. to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort: 2. not straight 3. to…. Learn more.
Verb skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed) (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
To turn or place at an angle: skew the cutting edge of a plane. 2. To give a bias to; distort: The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study. 1. To take an oblique course or direction. 2. To look obliquely or sideways. 3. To display a statistical tendency toward: a television program that skews toward teenagers. 1.
If something is skewed, it is changed or affected to some extent by a new or unusual factor, and so is not correct or normal. Today's election will skew the results in favor of the northern end of the county. [VERB noun] Policies are definitely more skewed towards economic growth than before.
SKEW is the ticker symbol for the CBOE Skew Index, a measure of the perceived tail risk of the distribution of S&P 500 investment returns over a 30-day horizon. The index values are calculated and published by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) based on current S&P 500 options market data.