Measuring Kurtosis by right and left inequality orders

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2665-2680

  Fiori, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kurtosis diagram; Kurtosis ordering; Lorenz curve; Peakedness; Standard fourth moment; Tail weight

Indexed keywords

(R ,S)-SYMMETRIC; RIGHT AND LEFT; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

CLARIFICATION;

EID: 46349088177     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920801985420     Document Type: Article

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