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skewness

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skewness [′skyü·nəs]
(statistics)
The degree to which a distribution departs from symmetry about its mean value.


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Visual inspections of boxplots, histograms, and skewness values were used to determine variable normality and homoscedasticity.
As is common practice, we used log-transformed concentrations for all statistical tests to correct for skewness in the distributions and to normalize residuals.
Means, standard deviations, Cronbach's alphas, skewness, and kurtosis for these scales are also reported in Table 1.
 
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