Some relationships between skew-normal distributions and order statistics from exchangeable normal random vectors

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1719-1733

  Loperfido, Nicola ^a   Navarro, Jorge ^b   Ruiz, Jose M ^b   Sandoval, Carlos J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Closed skew normal distribution; Hazard rate; Log concavity; Mean residual life; Monotone likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

CLOSED SKEW-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD RATE; LOG-CONCAVITY; MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE; MONOTONE LIKELIHOOD RATIO;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; VECTORS;

STATISTICS;

EID: 34547314510     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601126175     Document Type: Article

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