Construction of multivariate distributions: A review of some recent results

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-35

  Sarabia, José María ^a   Gómez Déniz, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associated random variables; Conditionally specified distributions; Mixture distributions; Multivariate weighted distributions; Multivariate Zipf distributions; Order statistics; Rosenblatt transformation; Skew distributions; Variables in common; Vines

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749109804     PISSN: 16962281     EISSN: 20138830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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