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== Cokurtosis ==
== Cokurtosis ==

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In probability theory and statistics, cokurtosis is a measure of how much two random variables change together. Cokurtosis is the fourth standardized cross central moment. If two random variables exhibit a high level of cokurtosis they will tend to undergo extreme positive and negative deviations at the same time.

Definition

For two random variables X and Y there are three non-trivial cokurtosis statistics [1]

and

where E[X] is the expected value of X, also known as the mean of X, and is the standard deviation of X.

Properties

  • Kurtosis is a special case of the cokurtosis when the two random variables are identical:
  • For two random variables, X and Y, the kurtosis of the sum, X + Y, is

where is the kurtosis of X and is the standard deviation of X.
  • It follows that the sum of two random variables can have non-zero kurtosis () even if both random variables are have zero kurtosis in isolation ( and ).
  • The cokurtosis between variables X and Y does not depend on the scale on which the variables are expressed. If we are analyzing the relationship between X and Y, the cokurtosis between X and Y will be the same as the cokurtosis between a + bX and c + dY, where a, b, c and d are constants.

References

  1. ^ Miller, Michael B. (2014). Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management (2nd ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 53–56. ISBN 978-1-118-75029-2.

Category:Algebra of random variables

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