A unified view on skewed distributions arising from selections

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 581-601

  Arellano Valle, Reinaldo B ^a   Branco, Márcia D ^b   Genton, Marc G ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Multimodal distribution; Multivariate distribution; Nonnormal distribution; Selection mechanism; Skew symmetric distribution; Skewness; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847740979     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550340403     Document Type: Review

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