An improved skewness measure

Richard A. Groeneveld; Glen Meeden

An improved skewness measure

Richard A. Groeneveld
, Glen Meeden

Statistics (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

Skewness is an important property of a population. Although many measures have been proposed there is no consensus on what should be used in practice. We propose a new measure which is appropriate when the direction of the skewness is known a priori. It is simple to interpret and easy to estimate.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	325-337
Number of pages	13
Journal	Metron
Volume	67
Issue number	3
State	Published - Dec 1 2009

Keywords

Bayesian bootstrap
Influence function
Skewness measure

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