Invariance-based estimating equations for skew-symmetric distributions

Metron

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 275-298

  Azzalini, Adelchi ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b   Scarpa, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Distributional invariance; Generalized skew normal distribution; Root selection; Semiparametric

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956157405     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03263540     Document Type: Article

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