Skewness and Kurtosis in Statistics

The average and measure of dispersion can describe the distribution but they are not sufficient to describe the nature of the distribution. For this purpose we use other concepts known as Skewness and Kurtosis. The symmetrical and skewed distributions are shown by curves as Skewness Skewness means lack of symmetry. A distribution is said to be symmetrical when the values are uniformly distributed around the mean. For example, the following distribution is...