Which is not relative measures of skewness?

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  1. \(\frac{(Q_3-Q_2)-(Q_2-Q_1)}{Q_3-Q_1}\)
  2. \(\frac{P_{90}-2P_{50}+P_{10}}{P_{90}-P_{10}}\)
  3. \(\frac{D_{9}-2D_{5}+D_{1}}{D_{9}-D_{1}}\)
  4. mean - mode

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Option 4 : mean - mode
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The correct answer is mean - mode

Key Points 

  • Relative measures of skewness aim to quantify the degree of asymmetry in a given dataset with respect to some reference point.
  • The first three options,\( ((Q3-Q2)-(Q2-Q1))/(Q3-Q1), ((P90-2P50)+P10)/(P90-P10)\), and \(((D9-2D5)+D1)/(D9-D1)\), are all measures of skewness based on quantiles. They quantify the asymmetry of a dataset by comparing the difference between its median \((Q2, P50, D5) \)and its extremes \((Q1, Q3, P10, P90, D1, D9).\)

 Additional Information

  • "MEAN- MODE" is simply the difference between the mean and mode of a dataset and does not provide any information about the degree of asymmetry.
  • The measure "Mean - Mode" is not considered as a relative measure of skewness because it is not expressed in terms of standard deviations, quartiles or other standard measurements.
  • Skewness is the measure of asymmetry of a probability distribution and relative measures of skewness are expressed in terms of the standard units of measurement.

 

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