On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Narandra Dashora wrote:

> Kurtosis is Ex Kurtosis meaning greater than 3. Skewness is based on 
> Moments.

Yes. I might just add that our measures are in agreement with those of the 
"moments" package for R, except that R gives total rather than excess 
kurtosis.

Allin Cottrell

>
> On 8/5/14, Alecos Papadopoulos <papadopalex(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
>> Good afternoon.
>> Is it possible to provide the exact expressions for the calculation of
>> sample excess kurtosis, and for sample skewness, that Gretl uses? I
>> wasn't able to find them in the User Guide or in the Help menu, and
>> there are varying expressions available in the literature, with
>> different bias-correction terms.
>> Thank you.
>>
>> PS : The swinging MLE appears to work fine.
>>
>> --
>> Alecos Papadopoulos
>> Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
>> Department of Economics
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>> skype:alecos.papadopoulos
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Allin Cottrell
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