Three different measures of sample skewness and kurtosis and their effects on the Jarque–Bera test for normality

Panagiotis Mantalos

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 2011, vol. 2, issue 1, 47-62

Abstract: Monte Carlo methods are used to study the size and the power of three versions of the Jarque and Bera Lagrangian multiplier test for normality, JB(g₁, g₂), JB(b₁, b₂) and, finally, JB(k₁, k₂). The difference between these tests comes from the different definitions (estimates) of sample skewness and kurtosis. The Jarque and Bera test has rather poor small sample properties: the slow convergence of the test statistic to its limiting distribution makes the test oversized for small nominal level and undersized for larger than 3% levels even in a reasonably large sample. However, the JB(k₁, k₂) for a 5% nominal level shows good properties for all samples. The power of the tests shows the same erratic form.

Keywords: Jarque and Bera; Lagrangian multiplier test; kurtosis; sample skewness; test for normality; sampling; Monte Carlo methods. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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