Re: skewness or kurtosis ?

From: Nick van Eijndhoven <Nick_at_phys.uu.nl>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:23:57 +0200


Hi Rene,
What about introducing a more general faility GetCentralMoment(n) to return the n-th central moment ? In such a way one directly covers the mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis etc....

Cheers,
Nick.

> Hi Damir,
>
> Thanks to Anna Kreshuk for implementing your requested functions.
> They are now in CVS head. see:
> http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TH1.html#TH1:GetSkewness
> http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TH1.html#TH1:GetKurtosis
>
> Rene Brun
>
> On Mon,
> 25 Apr 2005, Damir Buskulic wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a method in TH1 (for instance) that calculates the skewness
> > and/or kurtosis of a given distribution ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Damir
> >
> > ====================================
> > Damir Buskulic, Universite de Savoie/LAPP
> > Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, FRANCE
> > Tel : +33 (0)450091600
> > e-mail: buskulic_at_lapp.in2p3.fr
> > ====================================
> >
>
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