Akademik

skew
In statistics, departure from symmetry of a frequency distribution.

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n.
a disorder of relationships within a family, in which one parent is overpowering and the other is submissive and there is a general avoidance of anxiety-provoking situations. It was proposed as a specific cause of schizophrenia in the children, but this has not been confirmed.

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(sku) 1. deviating from a straight line; slanting. 2. asymmetric or antisymmetric. 3. of a probability distribution, not symmetric about the mean.

Medical dictionary. 2011.