Re: [Gretl-users] skewness and kurtosis
Thanks for the quick reply.
I certainly back the idea to have such a function package. It will make life easier for
many of us.
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: Berend Hasselman [mailto:bhh@xs4all.nl]
Sent: 29 May 2011 15:12
To: r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it; Gretl list
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] skewness and kurtosis
On 29-05-2011, at 12:11, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
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Two new functions, skewness() and kurtosis(), are now in CVS. As soon as Allin approves
them, I'll write the documentation.
I had also thought of adding one more function, but I'm not certain it would be a
good thing, so before I do, I'd like to hear the community's take: my idea was to
write a function which takes a series, or a list, as argument and outputs a 4-column
matrix with mean, sd, skewness and excess kurtosis.
Pros: nice to have.
Cons: one more reserved word in the namespace for something that is rather trivial to do
via a short script.
Put it in a function package?
Berend