Moments of skew-normal random vectors and their quadratic forms

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 319-325

  Genton, Marc G ^a   He, Li ^a   Liu, Xiangwei ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocovariance function; Multivariate skew normal distribution; Quadratic form; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001168061     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00164-4     Document Type: Article

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