The skew-normal distribution and related multivariate families

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-188

  Azzalini, Adelchi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flexible parametric family; Graphical models; Heavy tails; Hidden truncation model; Selective sampling; Skew ? distribution; Skew elliptical distribution; Skew normal distribution; Stochastic frontier models

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744373319     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00426.x     Document Type: Review

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