Comparing measures of sample skewness and kurtosis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 183-189

  Joanes, D N ^a   Gill, C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bias; Kurtosis; Mean squared error; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006540633     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00122     Document Type: Article

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