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Library: xplore
See also: skewness kurtosis

Quantlet: excess
Description: Computes the excess (kurtosis-3) for a given vector.

Usage: e = excess (x)
Input:
x vector
Output:
e scalar

Example:

library("xplore")

randomize (0)

x = normal (100)

excess (x)

Result:

Contents of e

[1,]   0.27942


Library: xplore
See also: skewness kurtosis

Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Author: TTK, 960207; Marlene Mueller 990308
(C) MD*TECH Method and Data Technologies, 21.9.2000