cumkurt {cumstats}

Cumulative Kurtosis

Description

Returns a vector whose elements are the cumulative kurtosis of the elements of the argument.

Usage

cumkurt(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector.

Value

A numeric vector of the same length as x. An NA value in x causes the corresponding and following elements of the return value to be NA. The first entry is always NaN since kurtosis requires at least two different values.

Author(s)

Arturo Erdely.

References

Kotz, S., Balakrishnan, N., Read, C.B, Vidakovic, B., Johnson, N.L. (2006) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences. Wiley, New Jersey.

See Also

kurtosis

Examples

cumkurt(c(9, 1, 4, 0, 3, NA, 8, 5))