Dear All, Is there any existing package or direct function in R / S-plus that calculates moments (raw or central); the usual measures of skewness and kurtosis, and/or pearsonian k criterion? Thank you for your time. ---------------------------------- Mohammad Ehsanul Karim Web: http://snipurl.com/ehsan ISRT, University of Dhaka, BD
Have you tried RSiteSearch("skewness") and RSiteSearch("kurtosis")? The "fBasics" package has functions for that, as do other packages. spencer graves Mohammad Ehsanul Karim wrote:> Dear All, > > Is there any existing package or direct function in R > / S-plus that calculates moments (raw or central); the > usual measures of skewness and kurtosis, and/or > pearsonian k criterion? > > Thank you for your time. > > > ---------------------------------- > > Mohammad Ehsanul Karim > > Web: http://snipurl.com/ehsan > ISRT, University of Dhaka, BD > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Mohammad Ehsanul Karim wrote:> Dear All, > > Is there any existing package or direct function in R > / S-plus that calculates moments (raw or central); the > usual measures of skewness and kurtosis, and/or > pearsonian k criterion?See package e1071. Uwe Ligges> Thank you for your time. > > > ---------------------------------- > > Mohammad Ehsanul Karim > > Web: http://snipurl.com/ehsan > ISRT, University of Dhaka, BD > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html