On a class of distributions with simple exponential tails

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1101-1110

  Jones, M C ^a,b  

^a The Open University

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric laplace distribution; Bandwidth selection; Exponential family; Hyperbolic distribution; Kernel quantile estimation; Log F distribution; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349114044     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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