Inferential aspects of the skew exponential power distribution

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 466, 2004, Pages 439-450

  DiCiccio, Thomas J ^a   Monti, Anna Clara ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Kurtosis; Maximum likelihood estimation; Normality test; Reparameterization; Robust estimation; Singular information matrix; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942600183     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000359     Document Type: Article

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