Testing for Poissonity-normality vs. other infinite divisibility

A. K. Gupta, T. F. Móri and G. J. Székely

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1994, vol. 19, issue 3, 245-248

Abstract: A new test for Poissonity--normality is proposed based on the characterization that for Poisson and normal distributions the squared skewness is the same as the kurtosis, and no other infinitely divisible distribution shares this property.

Keywords: Primary; 62F03; Secondary; 62E10; Skewness; kurtosis; Poissonity; normality; infinitely; divisible (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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