The density of the skew normal sample mean and its applications

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 487-494

  Chen, John T ^a   Gupta, Arjun K ^a   Nguyen, Truc T ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Disease occurring time in twins; Independence; Leukemia; Skew normal distribution; Skew normal sample mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942534408     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965031000147687     Document Type: Article

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