Relationships between distributions with certain symmetries

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1737-1744

  Jones, M C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; R symmetry; Random variate generation; Skew symmetric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862274776     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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