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The cause of skewed data distributions are extreme values, also know as outliers. For example imagine taking the weights of people you see on the street. If you have 9 cheerleaders' weights and then the weight of a sumo wrestler mixed into ...
In this article the author discusses the lack of attention given to the concept of skewness in research reported in the general psychological literature. Although the report of descriptive statistics, such as means and standard deviations, ...
Hi, If you have skewed data, this means that the distribution (spread or pattern) of your data is not 'bell shaped' - it is not symmetrical about the mean (the arithmetrical average) - another way of saying this is that the dta is not norma...
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It is a little surprising that your data's level of skew increases after a logarithmic transformation - I have never heard that. Try snipping the ends (get rid of the outliers), and then run your data. A heavy skew will violate the required...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080828145...
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