On the singularity of multivariate skew-symmetric models

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1434-1444

  Ley, Christophe ^a   Paindaveine, Davy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Characterization property; Profile likelihood; Reparameterization; Singular Fisher information matrix; Skew normal distributions; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949542317     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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