On the sample characterization criterion for normal distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-163

  Gupta, Arjun K ^a   Chen, Tuhao ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Independence; Moment generating function; Sample mean; Sample variance; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037340758     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650215867     Document Type: Article

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