for instance, residuals of a model when you forget to take the logs to model a multiplicative phenomenon
try an arima of stock returns in first diff instead of logdiff for instance. "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Today in class we looked at shapes of distributions. I realized that > I could think of lots of examples of symmetric distributions and of > distributions that are skewed right, but I went blank trying to > think of a straightforward real-life example of a distribution that > is skewed left. > > Anyone care to contribute the obvious answer that I can't think of? > > -- > Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA > http://OakRoadSystems.com/ > "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" > "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." > "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." > "I was misinformed." . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
