A new estimate of skewness with mean-squared error smaller than that of the sample skewness

DOI10.1080/03610919608813321MaRDI QIDQ4337270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Haim Shore

Publication date 11 November 1997

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610919608813321

zbMATH Keywords

distribution fittingestimationmomentsskewness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric inference (62F99)

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