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Variation vs. Skewness — What's the Difference?

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 \scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \! where \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma 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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