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Table 1 Mean relative percentage errors between the normalized unbiased sample skewness \(\tilde {\gamma }_{s}\) and the normalized unbiased skewness \(\tilde {\gamma }_{y}\) for varying sample sizes n=32,…,16384, and overlapping return periods q=2,…,128

From: Unbiased weighted variance and skewness estimators for overlapping returns

n/q

2

4

8

16

32

64

128

32

14.24

33.14

68.01

*

*

*

*

64

7.08

16.55

35.36

69.79

*

*

*

128

3.53

8.25

17.71

36.47

70.67

*

*

256

1.76

4.11

8.83

18.29

37.03

71.12

*

512

0.88

2.05

4.41

9.12

18.58

37.31

71.34

1024

0.44

1.03

2.20

4.55

9.27

18.72

37.45

16384

0.03

0.06

0.14

0.28

0.58

1.16

2.34