The tendency of the deviations from the mean to be larger in one direction than in the other is called ________.
A) skewness
B) kurtosis
C) type I error
D) type II error

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Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of a probability distribution. If the distribution is not symmetric, then the tendency of the deviations from the mean to be larger in one direction than in the other is called skewness. Kurtosis, on the other hand, is a measure of the peakedness or flatness of a probability distribution. Type I and Type II errors are related to hypothesis testing and are not related to this concept.

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