Kurtosis and spread

DOI10.2307/3315414zbMath0692.62010OpenAlexW2059333978MaRDI QIDQ3034659

H. L. MacGillivray, Kevin Balanda

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315414

zbMATH Keywords

skewnesstailweightpeakednessspread-spread plotscoherent structure of orderingincrease in kurtosiskurtosis orderingslocation- and scale-free movement of probability massscale-matchingspread functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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