The complications of thefourth central moment

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-269

  Dodge, Yadolah ^a   Rousson, Valentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central moments; Cumulants; Descriptive statistics; Moments; Unbiased estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033415493     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474471     Document Type: Article

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