skew

Object

• distribution: Ken was concerned that we would end up with a very skewed distribution of printer ages by the time we occupied the new building.
• perception: Coma is not accurately represented in films, something that could skew public perceptions and affect real life decisions, a new study claims.
• result: The choice of location will skew the results to what you want.
• priority: Investors will not be allowed to skew the priorities of a CIC away from its central pursuit of the community interest.
• figure: Landfill tax is driving business to dump more rubbish at council sites to avoid waste charges, thus skewing the figures.
• balance: We recently discovered that infection of mice with Friend retrovirus skewed the balance toward suppression by causing an expansion of immunosuppressive regulatory cells.

Adjective modifier

• positive: In the latter case, the positive skew of the distribution is particularly noticeable 11.
• negative: The negative skew is also important & ties in with market sentiment & RICs surveys over the last quarter.

Modifies a noun

• gaussian: In these plots the deviation of the skew gaussian from the mlla predictions at the 1 % level can be seen.
• bridge: A skew railroad bridge crosses the Tinsley Locks below the third lock.
• table: Firstly, the skew table is much more symmetric.
• function: The order of increasing complexity is: single Gaussian, skew Gaussian, Cauchy function, double Gaussian, multiple Gaussian.

Modifying Another Word

• negatively: In general, the mean is larger than the median in positively skewed distributions and less than the median in negatively skewed distributions.
• heavily: At present the emphasis remains heavily skewed toward treating illness.
• positively: Compute a bar graph on highly positively skewed data.
• slightly: The tower alignment is skewed slightly to that of the church itself.
• similarly: Conversely, focusing exclusively on African voices and denying the existence of the Western epistemology would be similarly skewed.
• somewhat: Mine is mine alone and perhaps somewhat skewed from thirty years of large software project development experience.

Noun used with modifier

• clock: The analysis can even be extended to remotely identify the physical machine being used, through extracting clock skew.

Preposition: in

• favor: Usually movies about folks dying are skewed in favor of the people not doing any of the dying.