| 词汇 | example_english_skew |
| 释义 | Examples of skewThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Such predominance of women in this sector means that, in effect, paid formal care is far more gender skewed than unpaid informal care. Similarly, if the distributions of the variables were skewed, the variables were excluded from the analysis. Nevertheless, the frequency polygons of the timing measures have shown that the distributions of these measures are not skewed. Not only that ; its membership was also heavily skewed, for much of the time, in particular directions. American employers did not eliminate the union shop, but they skewed its dominion. 94 responsive to a skewed group of orientations. The pelican not only retained the hybrid system, it skewed it in favour of the motorist. Figure 2 shows that the distribution is skewed to the right. First, the survey is based on telephone-derived data and may be skewed if those who did not participate were less likely to recognize symptoms. Where data were skewed, corresponding nonparametric tests were used to confirm the results. The lack of writing skills among women necessarily skews their social representativeness. To a large extent the history has been skewed, in a way. I feel in a way it has all been skewed to be an argument or a justification for rock. Because the distributions were highly skewed to the right, scores on these tasks were transformed by calculating the logarithm. Although observers used the full 5-point scale, ratings were positively skewed (as evidenced by the low mean score). Thus, the minimal data from this one child substantially skews the data when only seven children are in the intervention group sample. The densities are slightly skewed to the left and rather spread out. The bootstrap's main advantages are in dealing with skewed data and its ability to take correlations between costs and effects into account. If the magnitude of the extreme torques were equal, the parallelepiped would be centro-symmetric; otherwise, skewed. Median values are reported because a small number of reviews with unusually high numbers of trials skews the mean values. Previous reports have pointed out that the shown distributions of waiting times are often skewed (2;7). If the volume of operations cannot be adjusted according to the variation in the arrival process, skewed distributions may emerge. There are possibly some very high cost cases in chronic disease populations and the variation in costs might be very highly skewed. Second, the spectrum is skewed due to progressive absorbance loss during the scan. All tended to be narrow and somewhat skewed to the left. If the distribution of the forecast variable is negatively (positively) skewed, then the optimal forecast exhibits optimism (pessimism). 11. In addition, a publication bias might have skewed our results, since positive results tend to be published more consistently than negative ones. The distribution of herd sizes was skewed and data were normalized by a log-transformation. The distributions of these dosages were highly skewed and several outliers were identified even though patients taking no medication were excluded from the analysis. We must learn to see in perspective before we can draw using its dicta, and even then our view is skewed by optical bias. As higher-order correlations are sought, more complex relationships can be discovered, such as those related to skewed symmetry and or thogonality among groups of lines. If the distributions of variables were highly skewed, variables were log transformed to meet the assumptions of the statistical analyses. At the most basic level, food expenditure may have been skewed towards more easily prepared but less nutritious items. Scores for physical health were skewed (median 0.5, range 0-8). Because the item distributions were positively skewed, responses were dichotomized into 0 (never) and 1 (ever). However, since the pharmaceutical representatives knew about and agreed to the taping, this may have skewed how they presented their information. In contrast to the content analyses, emotion talk was not skewed in the positive direction. As noted above, the national-level literature is already skewed. One problem is that true genetic balance is an unattainable goal, since there is inevitable skewing toward genetic units containing large numbers of languages. The distribution of depot use was noted to be negatively skewed (mean=20.9 patients, median=10 patients). As is common with cost-based measures, the distribution of scores is skewed (non-normally distributed). The purely strategic outcome is even more lopsided and skewed than the purely sincere one. Deciding on tariffs, patents, licenses, taxes, cartels, entry-barriers, the state is simultaneously skewing the exercise of property rights from one elite to another. One could cite example after example of such skewed, argumentative passages. No more than 2 instances of a single lexical item were used in order to ensure that the phonetic contexts are not skewed. The frequency distribution of mature tree heights for trees with the largeand small-winged diaspores are skewed into high and low statures, respectively. Since economic data often have highly skewed distributions, a larger sample size may be required. By those criteria a significant number of female platyrrhine monkeys would be judged to have skewed inactivation ratios. In such cases, the population dynamics could be skewed by the limited adult population size. The evidence that we do have is also likely skewed. The distribution was skewed, with the majority of births occurring after age 16. The depression scores for both parents were skewed and were transformed using squareroot transformations. The latter was relatively infrequent and negatively skewed. However, the measure of contingent maternal negative responsiveness was positively skewed. The soft drug use score was positively skewed, and was thus transformed with a natural logarithmic transformation prior to analyses. A preliminary examination of cortisol values indicated that these variables were highly skewed. Since the distributions of these summary variables were positively skewed, they were dichotomized into 0 (never) and 1 (ever). Both global and summed scores were positively skewed. There was also variability in the time to followup and this may have skewed the survival curve. Both errors, when treated as continuous variables are highly, positively skewed. The soldiers thus portrayed civilian-military relations as being skewed, not as they 'should be'. As was the case in fish hosts, worm count distributions are positively skewed. Languages may exclusively use one, or a combination of just two, or all of them in skewed propor tions. Doing this requires a heavily skewed draw from the outer wing of the party. In questionnaires or surveys the two are apt to be treated as one procedure, skewing distribution maps. Intra-group class conflict results in limited participation, skewed communication between members and leaders, and leaders who are not accountable for their actions. When excluded, her exceptional pattern disappears; thus, it is simply skewed by the atypical patterning of one word. As the frequency distribution of verbs in the children's speech was skewed, log transformations were applied to the frequency data. The median of the distribution was approximately 0.07, clearly indicating a distribution positively skewed by a minority of children with above average error rates. The omission skews the volume towards the past. The market economy, for example, is always skewed. Conventional victim/victor positions are skewed and, in effect, very nearly switched. If there is publication bias in a meta-analysis, the funnel plot will often be skewed and asymmetrical (8). Our simulations indicate that the external factors of local input resistance and dendritic filtering generate equally small amounts of negatively skewed synapfic variability. The geographic distribution of sample species was also skewed. The symptom count distributions were positively skewed for each disorder. Also, chromatic sensitivity and color vision in observers with highly skewed cone ratios is similar to that in observers with more typical cone ratios. Thus, we might expect actor miscalculations regarding their ability to maximize benefits to be skewed to overnomination. Note by contast that materials consumed under natural conditions are generally skewed by selective exposure. Estimated ages were log transformed before fitting this model, as the distribution of ages was highly positively skewed. In instances where the data was skewed, a log transformation was performed in order to normalize the data. In this region, the temperature is negatively skewed, while it is positively skewed in the outer region of the wake. In criminal cases, the risk of error is to be skewed against the government and in favor of the accused in two ways. The statistics are skewed in three obvious ways. His children, for example, were often picturesquely freckled, with clumsily tied shoelaces, skewed ties and/or missing a tooth. At that time, the understanding of the optimal numerical scheme for molecular simulation was skewed by the availability of computer power. The distributions of the laboratory scores negative emotionality 0 irritability and withdrawal 0 fear were skewed to the left showed skewness values above 1.00!. Because conflicted play at age 5 remained significantly skewed, the logarithmic transformation of that variable is used in these analyses. Even though the watershed development program facilitated physical access to the groundwater resource, economic access in terms of gross irrigated area is skewed. The distribution may be symmetric, skewed left or skewed right. All of the alcohol measures were highly skewed and were transformed using squareroot transformations. Given that substance use and violence are highly skewed, and the variance changes in each measure over time, it is difficult to interpret correlation coefficients. As anticipated, most distributions are skewed, requiring statistical comparisons to be made cautiously. Beyond this, their discussion of the actual data is frustratingly skewed. Other outcomes had highly peaked or skewed distributions which could not be normalised by any of the common transformations. As a consequence, any random selection of households in such a city is likely to be skewed heavily in the direction of low-status groups. The distribution of land holdings is skewed, with 18% of the households owning 47% of the arable land. What difference would it make to their inferences if the true error was highly skewed or just slightly skewed? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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