A new class of skew-normal distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1465-1480

  Arellano Valle, Reinaldo B ^a   Gómez, Hector W ^b   Quintana, Fernando A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Kurtosis; Skew curved normal; Skew generalized normal distributions; Skew normal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ASYMMETRY; KURTOSIS; SKEW CURVED NORMAL; SKEW GENERALIZED NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SKEW NORMAL;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 3042683742     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120037254     Document Type: Article

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