How are moments and moments of spacings related to distribution functions?

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 377-390

  Jones, M C ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; L moments; Non identically distributed random variables; Order statistics; Range; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037090008     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00232-4     Document Type: Article

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