A general measure of skewness

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2012.04.011zbMath1489.62142OpenAlexW2126450909MaRDI QIDQ449017

Magnus Ekström, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 11 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rs685t8

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic relative efficiencyBowley's coefficient of skewnesslarge sample theorymeasure of skewnesstest of symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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