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@univpm.it; Gretl list
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] skewness and kurtosis


On 29-05-2011, at 12:11, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> ......
> 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


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