The concentration of riches among the few is nothing new in Brazil, a nation of 165 million known for its skewed distribution of wealth.
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Brazil, Furtado said, was hindered by its elite's adoption of foreign cultural standards, and its economic strength was anemic because of skewed distribution of income.
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And he was able to present a sizeable body of evidence in the form of these skewed distributions in both the 1934 and 1943 articles.
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The location of these sequences in " P . multocida " shows a skewed distribution towards genome maintenance genes, such as those involved in DNA repair.
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This boundary line is produced by extremely skewed distributions with very large values of one of the parameters and very small values of the other parameter.
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For example, in a skewed distribution, the nonparametric skew ( and Pearson's skewness coefficients ) measure the bias of the median as an estimator of the mean.
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The skewed distribution of land is at the root of rural violence in Brazil, where 88 percent of the land belongs to 20 percent of the people.
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One study, based on World Bank figures, found that Thailand has the fifth most skewed distribution of income in the world _ the worst outside Latin America.
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We can transform this sequence into a negatively skewed distribution by adding a value far below the mean, e . g . ( 40, 49, 50, 51 ).
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Throughout his years in office, especially during a difficult second term, Brazilians tended to fault Cardoso for not doing more to reduce the country's tremendously skewed distribution of income.
