Survey of developments in the theory of continuous skewed distributions

Metron

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-261

  Kotz, Samuel ^a   Vicari, Donatella ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elliptical distributions; Gaussian distribution; Hidden truncation; Johnson transformation; Pearson curves; Thiele Gram Charlier expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649116711     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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