Bias-reduced estimates for skewness, kurtosis, L-skewness and L-kurtosis

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2011.06.024zbMATH Open1235.62049OpenAlexW2006011522MaRDI QIDQ719482FDOQ719482

Authors: Christopher S. Withers, Saralees Nadarajah 

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2011.06.024

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zbMATH Keywords

maximumnonparametrics\(L\)-moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

Cites Work

• Robust Locally Weighted Regression and Smoothing Scatterplots
• On some expressions for variance, covariance, skewness and L-moments
• On the characterization of distributions by their \(L\)-moments
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• A small sample comparison of maximum likelihood, moments and \(L\)-moments methods for the asymmetric exponential power distribution
• Some theory and practical uses of trimmed \(L\)-moments
• \(L\)-moments and \(C\)-moments
• Distributions with maximum entropy subject to constraints on their \(L\)-moments or expected order statistics

Cited In (5)

• A note on bias reduction
• Nonparametric Confidence Regions for L-Moments
• A uniqueness result for \(L\)-estimators, with applications to \(L\)-moments
• Inference for quantile measures of kurtosis, peakedness, and tail weight
• Bias-corrected estimators of scalar skew normal

Uses Software

• LMOMENTS
• LOWESS

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