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A Straight Look at Skew Distributions
Author(s) -
Bedwell Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00333.x
Subject(s) - skew , econometrics , distribution (mathematics) , statistics , computer science , skew normal distribution , normal distribution , mathematics , mathematical economics , calculus (dental) , orthodontics , mathematical analysis , medicine , telecommunications
Summary This article argues that the Normal distribution is often not a good model for anthropomorphic data.