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Tag: extrapolated

Forgotten Moments: Skewness and Kurtosis as Influential Factors in Inferences Extrapolated From Response Distributions

March 6, 1984
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Citation:
Newell, K.M., & Hancock, P.A. (1984). Forgotten moments: Skewness and kurtosis are influential factors in inferences extrapolated from response distributions. Journal of Motor Behavior, 16(3), 320-335.

Abstract:
It is proposed that reliance on only the mean and standard deviation of a distribution to describe response frequency may lead to erroneous inferences concerning such distributions when skewness and kurtosis are present.

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