The epsilon-skew-normal distribution for analyzing near-normal data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 291-309

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Binormal; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mode; Skew normal distribution; Two piece normal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141754320     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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