Generalized skew-normal models: Properties and inference

Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 495-505

  Gómez, Héctor W ^a   Salinas, Hugo S ^a   Bolfarine, Heleno ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Skew normal distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751534595     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880600723168     Document Type: Article

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