Variation vs. Skewness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Variation and Skewness
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Variation
A change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits
Regional variations in house prices
The figures showed marked variation from year to year
Skewness
In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive, zero, negative, or undefined.
Variation
A different or distinct form or version of something
Hurling is an Irish variation of hockey
Skewness
To turn or place at an angle
Skew the cutting edge of a plane.
Variation
The act, fact, or process of varying.
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Skewness
To give a bias to; distort
The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.
Variation
The extent or degree to which something varies
A variation of ten pounds in weight.
Skewness
To take an oblique course or direction.
Variation
Something different from another of the same type
Told a variation of an old joke.
Skewness
To look obliquely or sideways.
Variation
Magnetic declination.
Skewness
To display a statistical tendency toward
A television program that skews toward teenagers.
Variation
(Biology) The existence within a species or other group of organisms of differences in form, function, or behavior, especially when hereditary.
Skewness
Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.
Variation
(Mathematics) A function that relates the values of one variable to those of other variables.
Skewness
Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
Variation
A form that is an altered version of a given theme, diverging from it by melodic ornamentation and by changes in harmony, rhythm, or key.
Skewness
Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
Variation
One of a series of forms based on a single theme.
Skewness
(Mathematics) Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
Variation
A solo dance, especially one forming part of a larger work.
Skewness
(Statistics) Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.
Variation
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
Skewness
An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.
Variation
A related but distinct thing.
When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.
All of his soups are variations on a single recipe.
Skewness
The property of being skew.
Variation
(nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
Magnetic declination
Skewness
(statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as where is the third moment about the mean and is the standard deviation.
Variation
(board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
Skewness
An oblique or slanting asymmetry
Variation
(music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
Variation
(genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
Variation
(astronomy) Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
Variation
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alteration; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
The essences of things are conceived not capable of any such variation.
Variation
Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
Variation
Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
Variation
Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
Variation
One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
Variation
An instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
Variation
An activity that varies from a norm or standard;
Any variation in his routine was immediately reported
Variation
A repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
Variation
Something a little different from others of the same type;
An experimental version of the night fighter
An emery wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone
The boy is a younger edition of his father
Variation
An artifact that deviates from a norm or standard;
He patented a variation on the sandal
Variation
The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
Variation
(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
Variation
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
Variation
(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
Variation
The act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard;
Who is responsible for these variations in taxation?
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