On homogeneous skewness of unimodal distributions

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Sankhya B: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Abstract

We introduce a new concept of skewness for unimodal continuous distributions which is built on the asymmetry of the density function around its mode. The asymmetry is captured through a skewness function. We call a distribution homogeneously skewed if this skewness function is consistently positive or negative throughout its domain, and partially homogeneously skewed if the skewness function changes its sign at most once. This type of skewness is shown to exist in many popular continuous distributions such as Triangular, Gamma, Beta, Lognormal and Weibull. Two alternative ways of partial ordering among the partially homogeneously skewed distributions are described. Extensions of the notion to broader classes of distributions including discrete distributions have also been discussed

Publication Date

1-4-2009

Publisher

Springer Nature||Indian Statistical Institute

Volume

Vol.71

Issue

Iss.Part-2

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