The skewness and kurtosis are defined as: $$\zeta_3 = \frac{E[(X-\mu)^3]}{E[(X-\mu)]^3} = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}$$ $$\zeta_4 = \frac{E[(X-\mu)^4]}{E[(X-\mu)]^4} = \frac{\mu_4}{\sigma^4}$$ The following formulae are used to calculate sample skewness and kurtosis: $$z_3 = \frac{\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} [(x_i-\bar x)^3]}{(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}[(x_i-\bar x)^2])^{3/2}}$$ $$z_4 = \frac{\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} [(x_i-\bar x)^4]}{(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}[(x_i-\bar x)^2])^2}$$ My question is: are these estimators unbiased? I don't know whether I should use unbiased standard deviation or the biased one in the denominator. In general, if we have a function $f$ whose variables are unbiased estimators, then can we say $f$ is an unbiased estimator as well?