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    Data can be skewed, meaning it has a long tail on one side of the peak, with negative skew having the tail on the left side so the mean is left of the peak, positive skew having the tail on the right so the mean is right of the peak, and no skew being perfectly symmetrical with the mean at the peak; an example of positive skew is income data which has a long tail past $100,000.

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    Data can be skewed, meaning it has a long tail on one side of the peak, with negative skew having the tail on the left side so the mean is left of the peak, positive skew having the tail on the right so the mean is right of the peak, and no skew being perfectly symmetrical with the mean at the peak; an example of positive skew is income data which has a long tail past $100,000.

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    Data can be skewed, meaning it has a long tail on one side of the peak, with negative skew having the tail on the left side so the mean is left of the peak, positive skew having the tail on the right so the mean is right of the peak, and no skew being perfectly symmetrical with the mean at the peak; an example of positive skew is income data which has a long tail past $100,000.

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    Skewed Data

    Data can be "skewed", meaning it tends to have a long tail on one side or the other:

    Negative Skew

    No Skew

    Positive Skew

    Negative Skew?
    Why is it called negative skew? Because the long
    "tail" is on the negative side of the peak.
    People sometimes say it is "skewed to the left" (the
    long tail is on the left hand side)
    The mean is also on the left of the peak.

    The Normal Distribution has No


    Skew
    A Normal Distribution is not skewed.

    It is perfectly symmetrical.
    And the Mean is exactly at the peak.

    Positive Skew
    And positive skew is when the long tail is on the
    positive side of the peak, and some people say it is
    "skewed to the right".
    The mean is on the right of the peak value.

    Example: Income
    Distribution
    Here is some data I extracted
    from a recent Census.
    As you can see it is positively
    skewed ... in fact the tail
    continues way past $100,000

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