This function gives the second-order conditions necessary to verify that a kurtosis is a global minimum. A kurtosis solution from
fleish_skurt_check
is a global minimum if and only if the determinant of the bordered Hessian, \(H\), is
less than zero (see Headrick & Sawilowsky, 2002, 10.3102/10769986025004417), where
$$|\bar{H}| = matrix(c(0, dg(c1, c3)/dc1, dg(c1, c3)/dc3,$$
$$dg(c1, c3)/dc1, d^2 F(c1, c3, \lambda)/dc1^2, d^2 F(c1, c3, \lambda)/(dc3 dc1),$$
$$dg(c1, c3)/dc3, d^2 F(c1, c3, \lambda)/(dc1 dc3), d^2 F(c1, c3, \lambda)/dc3^2), 3, 3, byrow = TRUE)$$
Here, \(F(c1, c3, \lambda) = f(c1, c3) + \lambda * [\gamma_{1} - g(c1, c3)]\) is the Fleishman Transformation Lagrangean expression
(see fleish_skurt_check
). Headrick & Sawilowsky (2002) gave equations for the second-order derivatives
\(d^2 F/dc1^2\), \(d^2 F/dc3^2\), and \(d^2 F/(dc1 dc3)\). These were verified and \(dg/dc1\) and \(dg/dc3\) were calculated
using D
. This function would not ordinarily be called by the user.
fleish_Hessian(c)
a vector of constants c1, c3, lambda
A list with components:
Hessian
the Hessian matrix H
H_det
the determinant of H
Please see references for fleish_skurt_check
.