Fourth4: Fourth4: fourth moment of a data matrix
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View source: R/Fourth4.R

Returns a matrix containing the fourth moments.

1	Fourth4(data, type, shape)

`data`	data matrix
`type`	type=0 is the ordinary fourth moment, type=1 is the centered fourth moment, type=2 is the standardized fourh moment
`shape`	"square" or "rectangular"

`M`	Fourth square moment matrix
`MM`	Fourth rectangular moment matrix

Cinzia Franceschini and Nicola Loperfido

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data(iris)
iris<-data.matrix(iris)#returns the matrix obtained by converting the data frame to numeric mode
Fourth4(iris[,1:4], 1,"square") #returns a matrix containing the fourth moments