Quadratic forms of multivariate skew normal-symmetric distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 871-879

  Huang, Wen Jang ^a   Chen, Yan Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chi square distribution; Independence; Moment generating function; Non normal models; Quadratic form; Skew normal distribution; Skew symmetric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645542599     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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