Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Bivariate and Multivariate Skew-Normal Distributions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 701-714

  Meintanis, Simos G ^a   Hlávka, Zdeněk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Moment generating function; Parametric bootstrap; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349278460     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2009.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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