Extreme value distributions for the skew-symmetric family of distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1705-1717

  Chang, Sheng Mao ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible skew symmetric; Generalized skew normal; Heavy tails; Multimodality; Selection models; Skew Cauchy; Skew t

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

FLEXIBLE SKEW-SYMMETRIC; GENERALIZED SKEW-NORMAL; HEAVY TAILS; MULTIMODALITY; SELECTION MODELS; SKEW-CAUCHY;

STATISTICS;

EID: 34547295845     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601126159     Document Type: Article

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