The extended skew-exponential power distribution and its derivation

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1673-1689

  Salinas, Hugo S ^a   Arellano Valle, Reinaldo B ^b,c   Gómez, Héctor W ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Maximum likelihood estimation; Singular information matrix; Skewness

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

KURTOSIS; POWER DISTRIBUTION; SINGULAR INFORMATION MATRIX; SKEWNESS; SYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 34547368286     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601126118     Document Type: Article

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