A robust measure of skewness

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 996-1017

  Brys, G ^a   Hubert, M ^b   Struyf, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Influence function; Medcouple

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244255789     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186004X12632     Document Type: Article

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