The single-program package -moments2- has been updated on SSC, thanks as usual to Kit Baum. Stata 8.2 is required.

If interested, install or replace with -ssc- or -adoupdate-.

The update corrects a mix-up of the type(b) and type(b3) measure of kurtosis and adds a reference.

-moments2- calculates the mean, standard deviation, and different measures of skewness and kurtosis. It leans heavily on Nick Cox's -moments-, but allows different measures of skewness and kurtosis with measures as used in Excel, SAS and SPSS as default. The definitions and a discussion of the skewness and kurtosis measures can be found in See also