When are distributions skewed to the right?

DOI10.1016/0019-3577(94)90031-0MaRDI QIDQ1329619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Burton, Michael Keane, George L. O'Brien

Publication date 8 November 1994

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-3577(94)90031-0

zbMATH Keywords

finite meanmass transportation principlenonnegativityodd central momentssufficient conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

Review text

The authors state and prove sufficient conditions for all the existing odd central moments of a distribution with finite mean to be nonnegative. The conditions are expressed in terms of the density or distribution function. The proof of the corresponding theorems is based on the mass transportation principle, which permits to reduce the class of distributions under consideration to a smaller class with a particular simple description.

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