Van Staden, Paul JacobusKing, Robert A.R.2014-11-122014-11-122015-01Van Staden, PJ & King, RAR 2015, 'The quantile-based skew logistic distribution', Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 96, pp. 109-116.0167-7152 (print)1879-2103 (online)10.1016/j.spl.2014.09.001http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42564We show that the quantile-based skew logistic distribution possesses kurtosis measures based on L-moments and on quantiles which are skewness invariant. We furthermore derive closed-form expressions for method of L-moments estimators for the distribution’s parameters together with asymptotic standard errors for these estimators.en© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Spine Journal. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 96, pp. 109-116, 2015. doi : 10.1016/j.spl.2014.09.001.Exponential distributionLogistic distributionL-momentQuantile functionSkewness-invariant kurtosis measurePostprint Article