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Skewness vs Deflection - What's the difference?

skewness | deflection |

As nouns the difference between skewness and deflection

is that skewness is the property of being skew while deflection is the act of deflecting or something deflected.

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.

    • deflection

    English

    (wikipedia deflection)

    Alternative forms

    * deflexion (British)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of deflecting or something deflected.
  • * 1918 , H. G. Wells, Joan and Peter
    • The next morning Oswald stopped short in the middle of his shaving, which in his case involved the most tortuous deflections and grimacings.
  • The deviation of a needle or other indicator from its previous position.