absMoments              package:fGarch              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Computes absolute Moments of the skew Normal,  skew GED, and
     standardized skew Student-t  distributions

_U_s_a_g_e:

     absMoments(n, density = c("dnorm", "dged", "dstd"), ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

 density: a character string naming the symmetric density function. 

       n: the number of absolute Moments. 

     ...: parameters passed to the density function. 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     'absMoments' returns a numeric vector of length 'n' with the
     values of the absolute moments of the selected density function.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Diethelm Wuertz for the Rmetrics R-port.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Fernandez C., Steel M.F.J. (2000);  _On Bayesian Modelling of Fat
     Tails and Skewness_, Preprint, 31 pages.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ## absMoment -
         absMoments(4, "dstd", nu = 4)

