A general measure of skewness

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2012.04.011zbMATH Open1489.62142OpenAlexW2126450909MaRDI QIDQ449017FDOQ449017

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

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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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Cited In (9)

• Assessing Symmetry Using Quantiles andL-Moments
• Skewness measures of ordinal variables by means of rank statistics
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• Using a Generalized Mean as a Measure of Location
• Measurement of skewness and kurtosis for the generalized tukey lambda distributions
• A distribution-free \(m\)-out-of-\(n\) bootstrap approach to testing symmetry about an unknown median
• An asymptotic test for symmetry of random variables based on fuzzy tools
• Bootstrap-assisted tests of symmetry for dependent data
• On multivariate skewness and kurtosis

Uses Software

• R

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