Assuming a distribution defined solely by those moments it is possible (e.g., z- or t-test confidence intervals) but this isn't really the place to discuss such things since there's no R content to your question: try stats.stackexchange.com
Michael On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:56 AM, lambdatau <lewis....@rbs.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering whether it is possible to construct a confidence interval > using only the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis, i.e. without any of > the population? > > If anyone could help with this it'd be much appreciated (even if just a > confirmation of it being impossible!). > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Confidence-Interval-from-Moments-tp4284937p4284937.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
