Characterization of the skew-normal distribution

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 351-360

  Gupta, Arjun K ^a   Nguyen, Truc T ^a   Sanqui, Jose Almer T ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Chi square distribution; Decomposition; Half normal distribution; Induction; Non normal distribution; Sequence of moments; Skew symmetric distribution

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; INDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTIONS; HALF-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SEQUENCE OF MOMENTS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4644343803     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02530549     Document Type: Article

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