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Skewness, kurtosis and Newton's inequality

Statistics Theory 2016-02-16 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We show that an inequality related to Newton's inequality provides one more relation between skewness and kurtosis. This also gives simple and alternative proofs of the bounds for skewness and kurtosis.

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@article{arxiv.1309.2896,
  title  = {Skewness, kurtosis and Newton's inequality},
  author = {R. Sharma and R. Bhandari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2896},
  year   = {2016}
}

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This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to personal reasons