Stan Brown wrote: > > Today in class we looked at shapes of distributions. I realized that > I could think of lots of examples of symmetric distributions and of > distributions that are skewed right, but I went blank trying to > think of a straightforward real-life example of a distribution that > is skewed left. > > Anyone care to contribute the obvious answer that I can't think of?
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