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Measuring Skewness with Respect to the Mode

Barry C. Arnold Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Richard A. Groeneveld Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
Pages 34-38 | Received 01 Aug 1993, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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