Moment-ratio diagrams for univariate distributions

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-286

  Vargo, Erik ^a   Pasupathy, Raghu ^b   Leemis, Lawrence ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficient of Variation; Kurtosis; Skewness

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; KURTOSIS; MOMENT RATIO; PARTICULAR DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY MODELS; SECOND MOMENTS; SKEWNESS; UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79951882916     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2010.11917824     Document Type: Article

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