## Skewness, kurtosis and Newton’s inequality.(English)Zbl 1355.60028

Summary: We show that an inequality related to Newton’s inequality provides one more relation between skewness and kurtosis. This also gives simple and alternative proofs of the bounds for skewness and kurtosis.

### MSC:

 60E15 Inequalities; stochastic orderings 26C10 Real polynomials: location of zeros

### Keywords:

skewness; kurtosis; moments; polynomials

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