Patil, P.; Patil, P.; Bagkavos, D. - In: Statistical Papers 53 (2012) 4, pp. 971-985
the coefficients of skewness. Since most of the coefficients of skewness are designed to be zero for a symmetric density …, they overall do provide an indication of symmetry. However, skewness is primarily influenced by the tail behavior of a … density function, and the skewness coefficients are designed to capture this behavior. Thus they do not calibrate asymmetry in …