For all its technical liberties, the pop science convinces just enough to be both credible and intriguing – younger viewers in particular will be sent away with renewed (if slightly skewed) interests in chemistry, biology and astronomy, the latter further boosted by last week's real-life Martian news stories, providing the kind of publicity of which PR androids can only dream.
Even though I'm a girly-girl, I also have several male-skewed interests.
It would be the biography of a frustrated and antagonistic Washington bureaucrat hell-bent on imposing his skewed public-interest vision of what's best for the marketplace by unfurling rolls of red tape, impeding the technological advancement of digital television and chilling free speech.
The consultation appears so skewed to serve the interests of the big newspaper corporations that it obscures the fundamental point of the Leveson reforms: to bring news publishers into a system of independent, effective self-regulation that will encourage high ethical standards, while protecting the public from the consequences of unethical behaviour.
The statistical inference based on the standard linear regression is inaccurate when the distributions are skewed and/or when the quantity of interest is the upper or lower tail of the distributions.
Of particular interest is the response of skewed highway bridges, where the skew angle and other related factors make the problem more complex.
"On balance," said Robert H. Tembeckjian, the commission's administrator, "these proposals are skewed to what would be in the interests of judges, as opposed to what would be in the public's interest".
Then we developed models in which the exposures of interest, which were highly right-skewed, were treated as natural logarithm-transformed continuous variables.
The idea of generating skewed distributions from normal has been of great interest among researchers for decades.
Six published body-size distributions of migrant ruffs each suggest a very small left-side mode and/or left-skewed tail not previously recognized as being of interest ([ 12, 14, 15, 21– 23], see electronic supplementary material, table S1).
