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2003 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

A Comparison of Some New Measures of Skewness

verfasst von : G. Brys, M. Hubert, A. Struyf

Erschienen in: Developments in Robust Statistics

Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD

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Asymmetry of a univariate continuous distribution is commonly described as skewness. The well-known classical skewness coefficient is based on the first three moments of the data set, and hence it is strongly affected by the presence of one or more outliers. In this paper we propose several new measures of skewness which are more robust against outlying values. Their properties are compared using both real and simulated data.

Metadaten
Titel
A Comparison of Some New Measures of Skewness
verfasst von
G. Brys
M. Hubert
A. Struyf
Copyright-Jahr
2003
Verlag
Physica-Verlag HD
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57338-5_8