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What is skewness used to describe? PLEASE HELP?

I believe its A, am i correct?

Skewness is used to describe..

a.The center of a distribution

b.The variation in a distribution

c.The shape of a distribution

d.The type of variable in a distribution

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  • 8 years ago
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    stephen

    The center of distribution or also called "central tendency" is used my the mean, median or mode.

    The correct answer is C - the Shape of the distribution.

    Hope that helps

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