Kurtosis, or the fourth central moment in statistics, is commonly used to estimate the shape of the statistical distribution of a signal (or data). It is widely used for detecting non-normality in the ...

In many applications, the manifest variables are not even approximately multivariate normal. If this happens to be the case with your data set, the default generalized least-squares and maximum ...

A statistical analysis of the distribution of returns can be used to determine many key characteristics of a stock's behavior. Volatility is not the only useful measure of risk that can be determined ...

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