[R] Robust skewness and kurtosis??

Roger Koenker roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu
Thu Apr 12 04:47:46 CEST 2001


I would recommend 

Oja, H.%t	On Location, scale, skewness, and kurtosis of 
univariate distributions%j	scand j statist%d	1981



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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, M. Edward Borasky wrote:

> Maybe this is the wrong list to ask this on, but are there robust statistics
> equivalent to the coefficients of skewness and kurtosis? I have robust
> measures for location and scale, but I need them for skewness and kurtosis
> as well.
> 
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