Some results on the multivariate truncated normal distribution

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 209-221

  Horrace, William C ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

A unimodality; Characteristic function; Log concavity; MTP2

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644425343     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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