The wrapped skew-normal distribution on the circle

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2459-2472

  Pewsey, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bird flight headings; Circular model; Computer intensive methods; Large sample theory; Method of moments; Skew normal distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012905201     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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