Simple tests for peakedness, fat tails and leptokurtosis based on quantiles

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00170-6MaRDI QIDQ951900zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich Schmid, Mark Trede

Publication date 4 November 2008

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-9473(02)00170-6

zbMATH Keywords

heavy tails\(\alpha \)-robustnessreturn distributionselector statisticsvalidity robustness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Asymptotic properties of parametric tests (62F05)

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