| Table 6: Skew () and Kurtosis () results for the conventional moment procedure. |
| (a) n = 25 |
| | Dist | Parameter | Estimate | 95% Bootstrap C.I. | Standard error | Relative bias % |
| | 1 | |
1.259
| |
0.0065
|
−72.0
| |
3.286
| |
0.0280
|
−97.5
| | 2 | |
−0.6655
| |
0.0053
|
−50.9
| |
1.657
| |
0.0175
|
−78.0
| | 3 | |
0.0093
| |
0.0071
| — | |
2.374
| |
0.0194
|
−75.5
| | 4 | |
0.0068
| |
0.0042
| — | |
0.7011
| |
0.0096
|
−41.6
|
|
|
| (b) n = 1000 |
| | Dist | Parameter | Estimate | 95% bootstrap C.I. | Standard error | Relative bias % |
| | 1 | |
3.285
| |
0.0128
|
−27.0
| |
29.16
| |
0.3057
|
−77.5
| | 2 | |
−1.286
| |
0.0037
|
−5.2
| |
6.260
| |
0.0555
|
−16.7
| | 3 | |
−0.0011
| |
0.0051
| — | |
8.016
| |
0.0644
|
−17.1
| | 4 | |
−0.0003
| |
0.0010
| — | |
1.179
| |
0.0033
|
−1.79
|
|
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