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Tailweight with respect to the mode for unimodal distributions

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  • Averous, J.
  • Fougères, A. -L.
  • Meste, M.

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Location, spread, skewness and tailweight are studied for unimodal distributions by means of mode-based concepts. The Lévy concentration function and notions related to it are playing an important part.

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  • Averous, J. & Fougères, A. -L. & Meste, M., 1996. "Tailweight with respect to the mode for unimodal distributions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 367-373, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:28:y:1996:i:4:p:367-373
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