Sinh-arcsinh distributions

Biometrika

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 761-780

  Jones, M C ^a   Pewsey, Arthur ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heavy tail; Johnson's SUdistribution; Light tail; Sinh normal distribution; Skew normal distribution; Skewness; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249138148     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asp053     Document Type: Article

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