Generalized Tukey-type distributions with application to financial and teletraffic data

Statistical Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-56

  Fischer, Matthias ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

H transformation; Kurtosis transformation; Leptokurtosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350678979     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-007-0114-z     Document Type: Article

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