MOMENTS2: Stata module to compute skewness and kurtosis measures

Dirk Enzmann

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: moments2 calculates various measures of skewness and kurtosis. Based on Nicholas Cox's moments, it also calculates mean and standard deviation for a list of variables. moments2 differs from moments only in allowing different measures of skewness and kurtosis and making the measures used in SAS and SPSS the default.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: moments; kurtosis; skewness; summary statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08-11, Revised 2021-05-02
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install moments2". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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