The Relative Efficiency of Several Statistics Measuring Skewness

DOI10.1007/978-1-4612-3990-1_5MaRDI QIDQ4872929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard A. Groeneveld

Publication date 1 July 1996

Published in Statistical Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3990-1_5

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetryclose to normalityconvex orderingfinite supportinfinite supportlong-tailed distributions close to symmetrynatural sample estimatorsskewness measuresstandardized third central sample momenttriangular distributionTukey lambda distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Parametric inference (62F99)

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