Skewed vs Deviated - What's the difference?
skewed | deviated |
Twisted at an angle.
Biased, distorted (pertaining to statistics or information).
(skew)
(deviate)
(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
* 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56783761&id=4B7nMfNnIZkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22a+deviate%22&as_brr=1]
* 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0]
(statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
* 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g]
* 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo]
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between skewed and deviated
is that skewed is past tense of skew while deviated is past tense of deviate.As an adjective skewed
is twisted at an angle.skewed
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*deviated
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(head)deviate
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Noun
(en noun)- ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...
- Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate' is a ' deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...
- ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
- It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
- This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
- This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
Verb
(deviat)- He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms .
- Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.