Skew & Kurtosis
I illustrate how to manually calculate skew and kurtosis with Google's daily price data from 2007. The point is the variance, skew and kurtosis are each related MOMENTS of the distribution. A normal distribution has skew = 0 and kurtosis = 3https://www.dropbox.com/s/zg2x5ukywjt1uiw/skew_kurt.xls
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