Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Inferences for the Skewness and Kurtosis

Skewness and kurtosis are measures used to describe shape characteristics of distributions. In this thesis, we examine the interval estimates about the skewness and kurtosis by using jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL), adjusted JEL, extended JEL, traditional bootstrap, percentile bootstrap, and BC...

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Main Author: Zhang, Yan
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/math_theses/135
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=math_theses