Dennis Roberts wrote:
>
> unless you had a table comparable to the z table for area under the normal
> distribution ... for EACH different level of skewness ... an exact answer
> is not possible in a way that would be explainable
Even if you specify level of skewness, an exact answer is still not
possible without specifying more about the distribution. Specifying to
third moments (for example) doesn't pin disributions down very well at
all.
Glen
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