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Dispersion vs Skewness - What's the difference?

dispersion | skewness |

As nouns the difference between dispersion and skewness

is that dispersion is dispersion, dispersal while skewness is the property of being skew.

dispersion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
  • A process of dispersing.
  • The degree of scatter of data.
  • (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
  • (medicine) The removal of inflammation.

    • Related terms

    * dispersivity

    References

    * Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 131

    skewness

    English

    (wikipedia skewness)

    Noun

  • The property of being skew.
  • (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as \scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \! where \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma is the standard deviation.