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SKEWNESS FOR THE WEIBULL FAMILY
Author(s) -
Groeneveld R.A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
statistica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1467-9574
pISSN - 0039-0402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1986.tb01509.x
Subject(s) - skewness , weibull distribution , mathematics , shape parameter , statistics , exponentiated weibull distribution , class (philosophy) , statistical physics , econometrics , physics , computer science , artificial intelligence
. The skewness of the Weibull family of distributions is discussed for all values of the shape parameter. This class includes unimodal probability densities for which the coefficient of skewness μ 3 /o 3 is positive, but the order of the mean, median and mode is μ < m < M. For values of the shape parameter used in practice the distributions are skewed to the right by a well accepted definition of skewness.