On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Glen Barnett wrote:
> I'm utterly confused. Why do you think it's inconsistent for it
> to reject on skewness and fail to reject on kurtosis?
>
> That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
In the univariate case, skewneww and kurtosis have a
"nonlinear" relationship. That is, as a distribution becomes more skewed
in either direction, it tends to become leptokurtic...
WBW
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