Introduction to Skewness and the Mean, Median, and Mode

Module 2: Descriptive Statistics

What you’ll learn to do: understand shape, skewed, and symmetric distributions

A house with its lights turned on The typical value that is reported for the price of a home is the median price. The reason for this is due to the shape of the distribution. When a distribution is skewed, or has outliers, the mean may not be an accurate representation of a typical value for a distribution.