Sharp inequalities between skewness and kurtosis (Q1824271)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4117545
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Sharp inequalities between skewness and kurtosis
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4117545

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    Sharp inequalities between skewness and kurtosis (English)
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    Denote by a and b the skewness and kurtosis, respectively, of a probability distribution with finite fourth moment. The paper proves that \(a^ 2\leq b+2\); for unimodal distributions \(a^ 2\leq b+6/5\); and for infinitely divisible distributions \(a^ 2\leq b\).
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    skewness
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    kurtosis
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    unimodal distributions
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    infinitely divisible distributions
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