Influence diagnostics for skew-normal linear mixed models

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 648-670

  Bolfarine, Heleno ^a   Montenegro, Lourdes C ^b   Lachos, Victor H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Case deletion; EM algorithm; Local influence; Skew normal distribution; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149478139     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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