[R] Calculating moments of a distribution

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at pdf.com
Sat Jun 11 17:32:53 CEST 2005


	  Have you tried RSiteSearch("skewness") and RSiteSearch("kurtosis")? 
The "fBasics" package has functions for that, as do other packages.

	  spencer graves

Mohammad Ehsanul Karim wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Is there any existing package or direct function in R
> / S-plus that calculates moments (raw or central); the
> usual measures of skewness and kurtosis, and/or
> pearsonian k criterion?
> 
> Thank you for your time. 
> 
> 
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> 
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> ISRT, University of Dhaka, BD
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