Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis
Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis
Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis
SKEWNESS AND
KURTOSIS
SKEWNESS
Symmetric or Asymmetric
SKEWNESS
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SYMMETRIC or ASYMMETRIC
■ When the mean, median and mode have identical values, this
suggests that the distribution is symmetric.
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Two Types of
Skewness
Positive or Negative
Positive Skewness
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Positive Skewness
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Negative Skewness
■ Refers to the distribution wherein the longer tail is directed to the left
■ In this, more observations are concentrated on the right of the figure.
■ Sometimes called as “skewed to the left”
■ In either case, the median always lies between the mean and the
mode
○ Right skewed = mean > median
○ Left skewed = mean < median
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Skewness
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Example:
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Steps in Determining the Coefficient of
Skewness (raw data):
1. Compute the sample mean and standard deviation.
2. Subtract the mean from the individual observations to get
the deviation.
3. Take the cube of the deviation and then get the sum
4. Get the cube of the sample standard deviation then multiply
to (n-1)
5. Divide the answer in step 3 by the answer in step 4. The
quotient is the value of the moment coefficient of skewness.
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Steps in Determining the Coefficient of Skewness
(grouped data):
1. Compute the sample mean and standard deviation.
2. Subtract the mean from the midpoint of each class interval to
get the deviation.
3. Multiply the frequency of each class interval to its
corresponding cube of the deviation and then get their sum.
4. Get the cube of the sample standard deviation and then
multiply by (n-1)
5. Divide the answer in step 3 by the answer in step 4. The
quotient is the value of the moment coefficient of skewness.
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KURTOSIS
Leptokurtic, Mesokurtic,
Platykurtic
KURTOSIS
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KURTOSIS
■ Data set with high kurtosis tend to have a distinct peak near
the mean, decline rather rapidly, and have heavy tails.
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LEPTOKURTIC
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MESOKURTIC
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PLATYKURTIC
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Formula for Coefficient of Kurtosis
(raw data)
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Steps in Determining the KURTOSIS
(grouped data)
1. Compute the mean and standard deviation.
2. Subtract the mean from the midpoint of each class interval to
get the deviation
3. Raise the deviation to the fourth power.
4. Multiply the frequency of each class interval to each
corresponding fourth power of the deviation to get values for
fi (X-Xi)4 column.
5. Find the sum of step 4 to get the summation.
6. Raise the standard deviation to the fourth power and then
multiply by (n-1).
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PRACTICE
EXERCISES
Coefficient of Kurtosis
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