The logarithmic skew-normal distributions are moment-indeterminate

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 909-916

  Lin, Gwo Dong ^a   Stoyanov, Jordan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite moments; Heavy tail; Logarithmic skew normal distribution; Nonuniqueness; Problem of moments; Stieltjes class

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350046490     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1253279858     Document Type: Article

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