Multivariate measures of skewness for the skew-normal distribution

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-87

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Scarpa, Bruno ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Balakrishnan brito quiroz measure; Isogai measure; Kollo measure; Malkovich afifi measure; Mardia measure of skewness; M ri, rohatgi and sz kely measure; Multivariate skewness; Skew normal distributions; Song measure of shape; Srivastava measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052262457     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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