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Erschienen in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 1/2019

06.03.2018 | Regular Paper

An alternative data analytic approach to measure the univariate and multivariate skewness

verfasst von: Ravindra Khattree, Manoj Bahuguna

Erschienen in: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Abstract

We introduce a new measure of univariate skewness of a distribution or data based on quantiles and by using the concepts of even and odd functions. Based on this new measure, we then suggest an approach to define the multivariate skewness for the multivariate distributions and multidimensional data and accordingly suggest a measure for it. Using numerous data sets, we illustrate that Mardia’s measure of multivariate skewness appears to be ambiguous in what it actually measures and show that our measure not only has an intuitive appeal, it also unambiguously quantifies what one would view as the multivariate skewness. Approach presented here is data analytic and can be implemented on a computer. Based on the idea of orthogonal transformation of the data, we also suggest another multivariate measure of skewness which may be simpler to compute.

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Metadaten
Titel
An alternative data analytic approach to measure the univariate and multivariate skewness
verfasst von
Ravindra Khattree
Manoj Bahuguna
Publikationsdatum
06.03.2018
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 2364-415X
Elektronische ISSN: 2364-4168
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-018-0106-1

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