A note on skew-elliptical distributions and linear functions of order statistics

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3184-3186

  Loperfido, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

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EID: 55549110055     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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