Yihui,
   Could you please show me an example?
  What u have refered is clear for me, but i think the thing that i donot
know how to handle with is to link the relationships between
skewness/kurtosis and the distributions?
  Thanks.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Yihui Xie <xieyihui@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Certainly it's possible. Use any distribution function as long as you
> can change its skewness and kurtosis, e.g. the Chi-square
> distribution. The corresponding R functions are p*, q*, d*, and r* - I
> think you know these functions already (e.g. rchisq()).
>
> The only thing that you should be clear about is the relationship
> between the arguments of distribution functions in R and those in a
> certain theoretical distribution. Refer to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution if you don't
> remember those formulae for skewness and kurtosis.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:59 PM, zhijie zhang <epistat@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear R users,
> >  I hope to explain the concepts of skewness and kurtosis by generating
> > series of distributions with same skewness and different kurtosis or
>  with
> > same kurtosis and different skewness, but it seems that i cannot find the
> > right functions.
> >  I have searched the mailing list, but no answers were found.
> >  Is it possible to do that in R? Which function could be used?
> >  Thanks a lot.
> >
> > --
> > With Kind Regards,
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