A test for the hypothesis of skew-normality in a population

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-77

  Dalla Valle, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling statistic; Goodness of fit techniques; Skew normal distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751564679     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360500282148     Document Type: Article

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