Catik, Nazif; Onder, Ozlem - In: Ege Academic Review 10 (2010) 2, pp. 613-625
This paper investigates distribution of inflation items using various measures of skewness and kurtosis for Turkey … skewness and kurtosis are also computed as a novelty. Analysis results mainly reveal that inflation components are right skewed … say that weighted mean inflation used to measure general price changes is not trustworthy and a biased estimator of …