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Glossary: Unsupervised Learning

skewed

Also written: right-skewed, skewness, skew, skew()

Lopsided, with a long tail of large values, like Kettle & Crane's spending where a few big spenders pull the mean far above the median. Skewness measures it: 0 is symmetric and above 1 is strongly right-skewed.

Where the book teaches it

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