Different from being a normal distribution, if a curve is skewed on the right side, we call it
APositively skewed ✓ Correct
BNegatively skewed
CNon-uniformly skewed
DPlatykurtic
Correct answer: (A) Positively skewed
Explanation
A curve with its longer tail stretching to the right is positively skewed.
In positive skew the mean is pulled toward the high-value tail, so mean exceeds median and mode.
Negatively skewed curves have the longer tail on the left, with mean below the mode.
Non-uniformly skewed is not a standard statistical label for direction of skew.
Platykurtic describes a flat-topped curve, a matter of kurtosis, not skewness.
Skewness measures asymmetry, whereas kurtosis measures peakedness of a distribution.
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