Skew-symmetric distributions and Fisher information - A tale of two densities

Bernoulli

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 747-763

  Hallin, Marc ^a   Ley, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Singular Fisher information; Skew normal distributions; Skew symmetric distributions; Skewing function; Symmetric kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873330045     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/12-BEJ346     Document Type: Article

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