what does it mean for a frequency distribution to be skewed to the left?

Question

what does it mean for a frequency distribution to be skewed to the left?

Answer 1

it signifies that the histogram (aka frequency plot) of data has a peak that is lower than the mean value of the data. broadly that indicates there is an abundance of low values in the data set.

Answer 2

"Skewness is a measure of symmetry, or more precisely, the lack of symmetry. A distribution, or data set, is symmetric if it looks the same to the left and right of the center point."



"By skewed left, we mean that the left tail is long relative to the right tail."



http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35b.htm



IOW...the bulk of the data is found to the right of the mean.

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