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Pearson Skewness

Let a Distribution have third Moment $\mu_3$ and Standard Deviation $\sigma$, then the Pearson skewness is defined by

\begin{displaymath}
\beta_1 = \left({\mu_3\over\sigma^3}\right)^2.
\end{displaymath}

See also Fisher Skewness, Pearson's Skewness Coefficients, Skewness




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26