Skewness of a shifted Laplace distribution
Question
A continuous random variable has density on the real line, with constants and . Assuming its first three moments are finite, find its skewness .
Short answer
. The density is symmetric about , so and the third central moment is the integral of an odd function, , over the whole line, which vanishes.
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