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Skew - The misalignment or slant of a character, bar, line of characters, or barcode with respect to the bottom or top edge of the mailpiece.
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Source: USPS, 30 October 2009 15:27:31, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub32/pub32q_z.html
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Skewness - Most often, the median is used as a measure of central tendency when data sets are skewed. The metric that indicates the degree of asymmetry is called, simply, skewness. Skewness often results in situations when a natural boundary is present. Normal distributions will have a skewness value of approximately zero. Right-skewed distributions will have a positive skewness value; left-skewed distributions will have a negative skewness value. Typically, the skewness value will range from negative 3 to positive 3. Two examples of skewed data sets are salaries within an organization and monthly prices of homes for sale in a particular area.
[Category=Data Quality ]
Source: iSixSigma, 23 February 2011 09:12:26, https:web.archive.org/web/20111109014246/http:www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_glossary
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