Flexible class of skew-symmetric distributions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 459-468

  Ma, Yanyuan ^a   Genton, Marc G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense subset; Generalized skew elliptical; Multimodality; Skew normal; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043087814     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.03_007.x     Document Type: Article

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