[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niko Tiliopoulos) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nitin gupta) wrote in message >news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Dear friends, > > Please give me a few links where I can read up on what are Moments of > > Probability Distribution and how to calculate them. Also, how to do a > > multivariate analysis. > > thnx > > regards > > nitin gupta > > Well, the four moments of a pdf are (in order): mean, variance, > skewness and kurtosis.
Er, not quite. Firstly, there are more than four moments. Secondly the usual moment-based /measures/ of skewness and kurtosis are not the third and fourth moments themselves - but they are functions of them. Glen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
