On uses of mean absolute deviation: Decomposition, skewness and correlation coefficients

Metron

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 145-164

  Habib El Amir, Elsayed Ali ^a,b  

^a Benha University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Concomitant; Correlation coefficients; MAD; Pietra index; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875861953     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03321972     Document Type: Article

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