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Intriguing yet simple skewness: kurtosis relation in economic and demographic data distributions, pointing to preferential attachment processes

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posted on 2018-01-17, 09:48 authored by Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti
In this paper, we propose that relations between high-order moments of data distributions, for example, between the skewness (S) and kurtosis (K), allow to point to theoretical models with understandable structural parameters. The illustrative data concern two cases: (i) the distribution of income taxes and (ii) that of inhabitants, after aggregation over each city in each province of Italy in 2011. Moreover, from the rank-size relationship, for either S or K, in both cases, it is shown that one obtains the parameters of the underlying (hypothetical) modeling distribution: in the present cases, the 2-parameter Beta function, itself related to the Yule–Simon distribution function, whence suggesting a growth model based on the preferential attachment process.

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Citation

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2018, 45 (12)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Business

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Journal of Applied Statistics

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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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0266-4763

eissn

1360-0532

Acceptance date

2017-11-25

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2017

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2018-12-15

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02664763.2017.1413077

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