Bucket plot: A visual tool for skewness and kurtosis comparisons

This study introduces the bucket plot, a visual tool to detect skew-ness and kurtosis in a continuously distributed random variable. The plot can be applied to both moment and centile skewness and kurtosis. The bucket plot is used to detect skewness and kurtosis either in a response variable, or in the residuals from a fitted model as a diagnostic tool by which to assess the adequacy of a fitted distribution to the response variable regarding skew-ness and kurtosis. We demonstrate the bucket plot in nine simulated skewness and kurtosis scenarios, and the usefulness of the plot is shown in a real-data situation.