Inference for quantile measures of kurtosis, peakedness, and tail weight

DOI10.1080/03610926.2015.1056366zbMath1368.62083arXiv1407.6461MaRDI QIDQ4976198

R. G. jun. Staudte

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6461

zbMATH Keywords

bimodality; distribution-free methods; Tukey's sparsity index; variance-stabilizing transformations; skewed-\(t\) distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G08: Nonparametric regression and quantile regression

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62G15: Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions

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