Canonical transformations of skew-normal variates

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Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 146-165

  Loperfido, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Independent component analysis; Kurtosis; Normalizing transformations; Principal components analysis; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950339921     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-009-0146-x     Document Type: Article

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