Catik, A. Nazif; Önder, A. Özlem - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2009
This paper investigates distribution of inflation items using various measures of skewness and kurtosis for Turkey covering the period 1996-2007. Considering sensitivity of traditional distribution measures to outlying observations robust skewness and kurtosis are also computed as a novelty....