Skew

Skew describes the asymmetry of a distribution. Enforcement penalties are heavily right-skewed: most are modest, and a few are enormous, which is why summary statistics must be chosen carefully.

data and analysis · updated 2026-09-08

See also

• Median — The median is the middle value of a sorted set. This site reports median penalties rather than mean penalties because a handful of…
• Outlier — An outlier is an observation far from the rest of the data. This site's charts show outliers rather than removing them, because in…

Terms that refer here

Mean · Median · Outlier

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