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This tag describes the process of creating a statistical or machine learning model. Always add a more specific tag.

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Why is skewed data not preferred for modelling?

I believe this is very much an artifact of the tradition to revert to Gaussians due to their nice properties. But there are nice distributional alternatives, e. g. the generalized gamma that encompa …
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