Truncated skew-normal distributions: Moments, estimation by weighted moments and application to climatic data

Metron

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-345

  Flecher, Cédric ^a,b   Allard, Denis ^a   Naveau, Philippe ^b  

^a INRA   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Classical moments; Inference methods; Relative humidity; Truncated skew normal distributions; Weighted moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956073047     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03263543     Document Type: Article

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