Power kurtosis transformations: Definition, properties and ordering

Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-401

  Klein, Ingo ^a   Fischer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kurtosis ordering; Leptokurtosis; Power kurtosis transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750196925     PISSN: 00026018     EISSN: 16140176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-006-0241-1     Document Type: Article

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