Bivariate kurtotic distributions of garment fibre data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-335

  Hoggart, C J ^c   Walker, S G ^a   Smith, A F M ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Forensic science; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Scale mixtures of normal distribution; Uniform power distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038718011     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00407     Document Type: Review

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