Bayesian modeling using a class of bimodal skew-elliptical distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1484-1492

  Elal Olivero, David ^a   Gómez, Héctor W ^b   Quintana, Fernando A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Density estimation; Linear regression; Skew normal distribution; Stochastic representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749194208     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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