Continuous statistical distributions can be broken down into symmetric and asymmetric distributions. Asymmetric distributions deviate from symmetric ones by having different shapes on the left and right side of a suitable point of symmetry. They can be classified into “left”- and...

The skewness of a statistical distribution is often used to determine whether that distribution is symmetric or not. Such a determination is misleading. To show this we have analyzed a broad range of (classes of) skewness measures – complying with the requirements of a general skewness measure...