Variations on kurtosis estimation with different statistics software

 

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Autor: Barrantes Aguilar, Luz Elena
Médium: artículo
Stav:Versión publicada
Datum vydání:2019
Popis:Kurtosis, or a distribution’s fourth moment, is used to describe distributions and belongs to some normality contrast tests. Most of the statistical softwares include kurtosis, which makes the estimation to be relatively easy. Nevertheless, for a same data set, statistical softwares can provide a different result. The objective of this work is to depict kurtosis estimation differences between statistical softwares that are most commonly used among agricultural economists. Two samples were used to compare kurtosis coefficient estimation differences with nine different statistic softwares. Results shows that these differences are not due to a mistaken estimation procedure, but mainly because the term kurtosis is used wrongly. In conclusion, when working with a small sample size and adjustment factor is not considered, there is a 20% probability of making a mistaken conclusion.
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Instituce:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Jazyk:Español
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On-line přístup:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/eagronegocios/article/view/4456
Klíčové slovo:cuarto momento
exceso de curtosis
exceso de curtosis ajustado
software estadístico
fourth momentum
excess kurtosis
adjusted excess kurtosis
statistic software