Asymmetry and Gradient Asymmetry Functions: Density‐Based Skewness and Kurtosis

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9469.2008.00599.xzbMath1199.60037OpenAlexW2008484876MaRDI QIDQ5324877

Frank Critchley, M. C. Jones

Publication date: 8 August 2009

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9469.2008.00599.x

zbMATH Keywords

kernel density estimateunimodal densitylocal asymmetrylocal kurtosis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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