Student's simplest distribution

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-49

  Jones, M C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 degrees of freedom; Distribution theory; L moment; Quantile function; Skew t distribution; Student's t distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038892179     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00297     Document Type: Article

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