Nonparametric multivariate descriptive measures based on spatial quantiles

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-278

  Serfling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Location; Multivariate distributions; Nonparametric; Peakedness; Scale; Skewness; Spatial quantiles; Tailweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142656338     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(03)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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