A note on the likelihood and moments of the skew-normal distribution

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-65

  Martínez, Eliseo H ^a   Varela, Héctor ^a   Gómez, Héctor W ^b   Bolfarine, Heleno ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood equations; Moments; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749112380     PISSN: 16962281     EISSN: 20138830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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