The average is significantly higher than the median ( over three times higher ), reflecting significant positive skew – very large balances increase the average.

This technique preserves the positive skew of scores but also allows percentile comparison.

Any skew semistandard tableau of shape / with positive integer entries gives rise to a sequence of partitions ( or Young diagrams ), by starting with, and taking for the partition places further in the sequence the one whose diagram is obtained from that of by adding all the boxes that contain a value ≤ in ; this partition eventually becomes equal to.

Clock skew can be positive or negative.

There are two types of clock skew: negative skew and positive skew.

* positive skew distribution

A positive test indicates that the chemical is mutagenic and therefore may act as a carcinogen, since cancer is often linked to mutation.

When pointing the thumb away from the origin along an axis, the curvature of the fingers indicates a positive rotation along that axis.

These digits are often used with a decimal separator which indicates the start of a fractional part, and with a symbol such as the plus sign + ( for positive ) or minus sign − ( for negative ) adjacent to the numeral to indicate whether it is greater or less than zero, respectively.

One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.

Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.

The light half-circle indicates people experiencing the results of positive actions.

Standard economic theory and empirical data indicates that second-hand clothing import can have positive effects in a country like Zambia ( one of the least developed countries in the world ).

The formation of bubbles, oxygen, indicates a positive result.

Thus, a large positive return loss indicates the reflected power is small relative to the incident power, which indicates good impedance match from source to load.

Full employability indicates an attempt by government to make people " employable " by both positive means ( e. g. training courses ) and negative means ( e. g. cuts in benefits ).

Note that the flux of E through a closed surface is not always zero ; this indicates the presence of " electric monopoles ", that is, free positive or negative charges.

This indicates that the charge in the proton is concentrated in small lumps, reminiscent of Rutherford's discovery that the positive charge in an atom is concentrated at the nucleus.

The right-hand rule indicates the positive direction of the angular velocity pseudovector.

# Average weekly jobless claims for unemployment insurance — The CB reverses the value of this component from positive to negative because a positive reading indicates a loss in jobs.

A positive antibody titer indicates previous exposure and immunity and largely ensures the unborn baby's safety.

N is a positive whole number greater than 1, and it indicates the number of filter sections.

This indicates a positive trend for the District, although one which will need to reevaluated when the 2008-2009 data become available to determine whether it is part of a larger pattern or not.

Recent research indicates that inflating students ' self-esteem in and of itself has no positive effect on grades.

For example SIRS and a positive blood culture for a pathogen indicates the presence of sepsis.

The bar over the characteristic indicates that it is negative whilst the mantissa remains positive.

The VEP nomenclature is determined by using capital letters stating whether the peak is positive ( P ) or negative ( N ) followed by a number which indicates the average peak latency for that particular wave.

A positive value indicates that the object was perceived bigger and thus corresponds to macropsia, and conversely a negative value indicates micropsia.

What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.

* In a diode, it is the positive terminal at the tail of the arrow symbol ( base of the triangle ), where current flows into the device.

Their genomes consist of two molecules of positive sense single stranded RNA with a 5 ' cap and 3 ' polyadenylated tail.

The only promise made is that some tail of the sequence can be bounded by the limit superior ( inferior ) plus ( minus ) an arbitrarily small positive constant.

Tri-methylation in this case would introduce a fixed positive charge on the tail.

While the initial attraction between cardiolipin and cytochrome c is electrostatic due to the extreme positive charge on cytochrome c, the final interaction is hydrophobic, where a hydrophobic tail from cardiolipin inserts itself into the hydrophobic portion of cytochrome c.

* a positive number θ the " Pareto index "; as this increases, the tail of the distribution gets thinner.

There is a positive correlation between the chromas of the tail and breast feathers and body condition.

Increasing the wing incidence without increasing the tail incidence produces a nose up moment, so is expected to be positive.

This allows the pilot to select exactly the right amount of positive or negative lift from the tail plane while reducing drag from the elevators.

The size, black cap, strong bill ( 29 – 34 mm in males, 25 – 27 mm and stubbier in females, with a pronounced gonys ) and more positive flight recall Common or Arctic Tern, but the short, forked-looking tail and dark grey breeding plumage above and below are typically marsh tern characteristics.

For the step function, the magnitude of the undershoot is thus exactly the integral of the ( left ) tail, integrating to the first negative zero: for the normalized sinc of unit sampling period, this is The overshoot is accordingly of the same magnitude: the integral of the right tail, or, which amounts to the same thing, the difference between the integral from negative infinity to the first positive zero, minus 1 ( the non-overshooting value ).

Sociobiologists have also been concerned with the evolution of apparently excessive signalling structures such as the peacock's tail ; it is widely thought that these can only emerge as a result of sexual selection, which can create a positive feedback process that leads to the rapid exaggeration of a characteristic that confers an advantage in a competitive mate-selection situation.

Exploiting the psychology of the female, a positive feedback loop is enacted and the tail becomes bigger and brighter.