Bounded distributions place limits on skewness and larger moments.

Distributions of strictly positive numbers are common and can be characterized by standard statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, and skewness. We demonstrate that for these distributions the skewness D3 is bounded from below by a function of the coefficient of variation (CoV) δ as D...

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Main Authors: David J Meer, Eric R Weeks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297862&type=printable