skew
verb
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- (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
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biaiser
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fausser
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- (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
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incliner
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- (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
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loucher
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- (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
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sursauter
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skew
adjective
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- (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
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oblique,
gauche
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skewed
adjective
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- (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
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déséquilibré
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au lendemain de
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skewness
noun
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- (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.
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asymétrie
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- The property of being skew.
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distorsion
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