Speaking Stata: The limits of sample skewness and kurtosis

Stata Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 482-495

  Cox, Nicholas J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Descriptive statistics; Distribution shape; Kurtosis; Lognormal distribution; Moments; Sample size; Skewness; St0204

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957687086     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1001000311     Document Type: Article

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