Some properties of skew-symmetric distributions

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 857-879

  Azzalini, Adelchi ^a   Regoli, Giuliana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central symmetry; Log concavity; Peakedness; Quasi concavity; Skew symmetric distributions; Stochastic ordering; Strong unimodality; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL SYMMETRY; LOG-CONCAVITY; PEAKEDNESS; QUASI-CONCAVITY; SKEW-SYMMETRIC; STOCHASTIC ORDERINGS; STRONG UNIMODALITY; UNIMODALITY;

STATISTICS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84862134649     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-011-0338-5     Document Type: Article

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