On parameter orthogonality in symmetric and skew models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 758-770

  Jones, M C ^a   Anaya Izquierdo, Karim ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extended location scale model; Skew t distribution; Two piece distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955526496     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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