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    This document discusses skewness and kurtosis of statistical distributions. It defines positively and negatively skewed distributions and how to calculate the degree of skewness using Pearson's coefficient of skewness. Kurtosis measures the peakedness of a distribution and can be leptokurtic, platykurtic, or mesokurtic. Pearson's coefficient of kurtosis is provided to calculate the kurtosis of a given data set. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating skewness and kurtosis values.

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    This document discusses skewness and kurtosis of statistical distributions. It defines positively and negatively skewed distributions and how to calculate the degree of skewness using Pearson's coefficient of skewness. Kurtosis measures the peakedness of a distribution and can be leptokurtic, platykurtic, or mesokurtic. Pearson's coefficient of kurtosis is provided to calculate the kurtosis of a given data set. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating skewness and kurtosis values.

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    This document discusses skewness and kurtosis of statistical distributions. It defines positively and negatively skewed distributions and how to calculate the degree of skewness using Pearson's coefficient of skewness. Kurtosis measures the peakedness of a distribution and can be leptokurtic, platykurtic, or mesokurtic. Pearson's coefficient of kurtosis is provided to calculate the kurtosis of a given data set. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating skewness and kurtosis values.

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    SKEWNESS

    AND
    KURTOSIS
    LEARNING TARGETS
    At the end of the lesson, I can:
    a. differentiate positively skewed distribution from a
    negatively skewed distribution;
    b. calculate the degree of skewness of a given
    distribution;
    c. identify the different graphs of kurtosis; and
    d. find the kurtosis of a given distribution.
    GIVEN THE POPULATION DATA,
    COMPLETE THE TABLE:

    2 4
    180
    GIVEN THE POPULATION DATA,
    COMPLETE THE TABLE:

    2 4
    0
    CONCEPT OF
    SKEWNESS
    A distribution is said to be skewed-
    when the mean, median and mode
    fall at different position in the
    distribution and the balance (or
    center of gravity) is shifted to one
    side or the other i.e. to the left or to
    the right.
    Skewed Distribution
    A frequency distribution is said to be skewed if the
    frequencies are not equally distributed on both the sides of
    the central value.

    Positively Symmetrical Negatively


    Skewed Distribution Skewed
    Tests of Skewness
    • The values of mean, median and mode do not coincide.

    • When the data are plotted on a graph they do not give


    the normal bell shaped form i.e. when cut along a
    vertical line through the center the two halves are not
    equal.
    Tests of Skewness
    Coefficient of skewness
    There are four measures of skewness:

    • β and γ Coefficient of skewness


    • Karl Pearson's Coefficient of
    skewness
    • Bowley’s Coefficient of skewness
    • Kelly’s Coefficient of skewness
    Karl Pearson's Coefficient of Skewness
    This method is most frequently used for measuring
    skewness.
    Coefficient of Skewness
    Example:

    Given:
    mean =
    median =
    s=
    INTERPRETATION
    • The value of coefficient of skewness is zero,
    when the distribution is symmetrical.
    • The value of coefficient of skewness is positive,
    when the distribution is positively skewed.
    • The value of coefficient of skewness is negative,
    when the distribution is negatively skewed.
    KURTOSIS
    • Kurtosis is another measure of the shape of a
    frequency curve. It is a Greek word, which
    means bulginess.

    • While skewness signifies the extent of


    asymmetry, kurtosis measures the degree of
    peakedness of a frequency distribution.
    KURTOSIS
    When the peak of a curve becomes relatively high then
    that curve is called Leptokurtic.

    When the curve is flat-topped, then it is called Platykurtic.

    Since normal curve is neither very peaked nor very flat


    topped, so it is taken as a basis for comparison.

    This normal curve is called Mesokurtic.


    KURTOSIS
    Measure of Kurtosis

    There are two measure of Kurtosis:

    •Karl Pearson’s Measures of Kurtosis


    •Kelly’s Measure of Kurtosis
    KURTOSIS FORMULA
    Karl Pearson’s Measures of Kurtosis
    KURTOSIS EXAMPLE
    INTERPRETATION
    • Mesokurtic (kurtosis = 3.0)
    • Leptokurtic (kurtosis > 3.0)
    • Platykurtic (kurtosis < 3.0)
    ASSESSMENT
    SUMMATIVE
    PROBLEM SET
    SOLVE FOR THE COEFFICIENT OF SKEWNESS
    AND KURTOSIS OF THE GIVEN SAMPLE DATA

    2 4

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