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A tabular method for correcting skewness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
Affiliation:
Australian National University
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Abstract

We propose a smooth correction for skewness in an asymptotically normal statistic. Unlike the case of approximation by Edgeworth expansion, our correction applies uniformly in all values of the level. The correction is based on a ' comparison statistic', and, in the case of the Studentized mean, it enables removal of all effects of skewness up to terms of order .

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 525 - 540
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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