A measure of skewness for testing departures from normality
Computation
2012-02-24 v1 Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We propose a new skewness test statistic for normality based on the Pearson measure of skewness. We obtain asymptotic first four moments of the null distribution for this statistic by using a computer algebra system and its normalizing transformation based on the Johnson system. Finally the performance of the proposed statistic is shown by comparing the powers of several skewness test statistics against some alternative hypotheses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.5093,
title = {A measure of skewness for testing departures from normality},
author = {Shigekazu Nakagawa and Hiroki Hashiguchi and Naoto Niki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5093},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
17 pages, 8 figures