Assuming a distribution defined solely by those moments it is possible
(e.g., z- or t-test confidence intervals) but this isn't really the
place to discuss such things since there's no R content to your
question: try stats.stackexchange.com
Michael
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:56 AM, lambdatau <lewis.tye at rbs.com>
wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering whether it is possible to construct a confidence interval
> using only the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis, i.e. without any of
> the population?
>
> If anyone could help with this it'd be much appreciated (even if just a
> confirmation of it being impossible!).
>
> Thanks.
>
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