Re: [ABE-L]: Fwd: Business and Economic Statistics Section: RE:Kurtosis

Gauss M. Cordeiro

(Departamento de EstatÃstica da UFPE, Tel (81) 21267434)

Em 06/05/2012 10:47, pam@ime.usp.br escreveu:
Essa conversa pode ser util. A ASA nao tem rede de discussao, mas
algumas secoes tem. Estritamente estatistica.

Pedro

RE:Kurtosis analysis literature

From: David Hoaglin
To: Business and Economic Statistics Section
Posted: April 26, 2012 2:37 PM
Subject: RE:Kurtosis analysis literature
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Dear Alexandra,

I'm not sure what you mean by "kurtosis analysis." It is usually
difficultto get a satisfactory understanding of distribution shape in
data by examining the sample kurtosis and other measures based on
moments (such as the sample skewness).

Among the more-effectiveapproaches are ones based on quantiles,
especially plots such a quantile-quantile plots. The basic reference
for Q-Q pl ots is this paper:
Wilk, M.B., and Gnanadesikan, R. Probability plottingmethods for the
analysis of data. Biometrika, 55 (1968), 1-17.
Some other uses of quantilesare discussed in Chapter 10 of the book
Exploring Data Tables, Trends, and Shapes (D. C. Hoaglin, F.
Mosteller, and J. W. Tukey, eds.). Wiley, 1985.

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Subject: Kurtosis analysisliterature

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Dear all,

Since this is my very first post, I will be very thankful if you can
mentionsome Kurtosis analysis literature, prefer red on microeconomics
and customer behave.

Sincerely,

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Alejandra Trejo
Graduate Student
Sapienza University
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