How to generate distributions given, mean, SD, skew and kurtosis in R?
Is it possible to generate distributions in R for which the Mean, SD, skew and kurtosis are known? So far it appears the best route would be to create random numbers and transform them accordingly. If there is a package tailored to generating specific distributions which could be adapted, I have not yet found it. Thanks There is a Johnson distribution in the SuppDists package. Johnson will give you a distribution that matches either moments or quantiles. Others comments are correct that 4 moments does not a distribution make. But Johnson will certainly try. Here's an example of fitting a