Skewness for multivariate distributions: Two approaches

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1984-1997

  Avérous, Jean ^a   Meste, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Central parts; Interquantile intervals; Orderings; Skewness; Spatial median; Tailweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031486458     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362381     Document Type: Article

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