IG-symmetry and R-symmetry: Interrelations and applications to the inverse Gaussian theory

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3655-3671

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Wang, Hongyue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

lunate lognormal distribution; IG skewness; Peakedness; Root reciprocal IG; Symmetric unimodal distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447523267     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.041     Document Type: Article

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