Distributions of order statistics and linear combinations of order statistics from an elliptical distribution as mixtures of unified skew-elliptical distributions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1412-1427

  Jamalizadeh, A ^a   Balakrishnan, N ^b  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elliptical distribution; Linear combination; Mixture distribution; Order statistics; Unified skew elliptical distribution; Unified skew normal distribution; Unified skew t distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949539754     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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