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Skewness and Symmetry
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Wize University Statistics Textbook > Exploratory Data Analysis
Skewness and Symmetry
2 Activities
The data "peaks" at a bin near the higher end of a unimodal histogram. Which of the following is true about the distribution?
Skewed to the left
Skewed to the right
Roughly symmetric
I don't know
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0.5
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