👉 In statistics, an inswinger is a type of variable that has a large negative skewness. This means that a large number of values in this variable are very low and many values are very high. An inswinger is also known as a "superfluous" variable because it is not useful for making predictions or observations about the underlying distribution. For example, consider a dataset where there are 100 observations on a continuous variable with a large negative skewness. If we were