Characteristic functions of scale mixtures of multivariate skew-normal distributions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1105-1117

  Kim, Hyoung Moon ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Mixing; Multivariate; Scale mixture; Selection; Skew normal; Skew t

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956324074     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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