Generalized skew-elliptical distributions and their quadratic forms

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 389-401

  Genton, Marc G ^a   Loperfido, Nicola M R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elliptical distribution; Invariance; Kurtosis; Selection model; Skewness; Weighted distribution

Indexed keywords

INVARIANCE; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

ELLIPTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; KURTOSIS; SELECTION MODEL; SKEWNESS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 19744380806     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02507031     Document Type: Article

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