Kurtosis measures: Tradition, contradictions, alternatives

Statistica e Applicazioni

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-203

  Fiori, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gini index; Kurtosis diagram; Partial ordering; Pigou Dalton principle; Standard fourth moment

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349102825     PISSN: 18246672     EISSN: 22836659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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