Some measures for asymmetry of distributions

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2007.02.002zbMath1378.62008OpenAlexW2119834071MaRDI QIDQ2643383

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Publication date: 23 August 2007

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/897/1/Some_Measures.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetryasymmetry indexasymmetry curveconfidence characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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