Calculates the first four empirical moments (mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis) of a numeric vector.
empMoments(x)Named vector of length 4 containing mean, variance,
skewness and kurtosis (in this order).
(numeric) vector containing the data set.
Martin Becker martin.becker@mx.uni-saarland.de
PearsonDS-package
## Generate sample with given (theoretical) moments
DATA <- rpearson(25000,moments=c(mean=1,variance=2,skewness=1,kurtosis=5))
## Calculate corresponding empirical moments
empMoments(DATA)
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