Scale mixtures distributions in statistical modelling

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-146

  Choy, S T Boris ^a   Chan, Jennifer S K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exponential power family; Generalized t distribution; Gibbs sampler; Normal scale mixtures; Pearson type VII distribution; Robust analysis; Student t distribution; Uniform scale mixtures; Variance gamma distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249119206     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2008.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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