> 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
I absolutely agree, and I do apologise for being so simplistic in my approach (I just didn't want to confuse Nitin, though I may have just done that). Thanks for the clarification Glen. Best Niko . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
