Last data update: 2014.03.03
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R: Geary's measure of kurtosis
Geary's measure of kurtosis
Description
This function computes an estimator of Geary's measure of kurtosis.
Usage
geary(x, na.rm = FALSE)
Arguments
x |
a numeric vector, matrix or data frame.
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na.rm |
logical. Should missing values be removed?
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Details
The Geary's kurtosis is computed by dividing average difference between observation
and the mean by standard deviation of the sample.
Author(s)
Lukasz Komsta
References
Geary, R.C. (1936). Moments of the ratio of the mean deviation to the standard deviation
for normal samples. Biometrika, 28, 295-307.
See Also
kurtosis , bonett.test
Examples
set.seed(1234)
geary(rnorm(1000))
Results
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