Objective Bayesian Analysis of Skew-t Distributions

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-85

  Branco, Marcia D'Elia ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b   Liseo, Brunero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Approximation; Jeffreys prior; Maximum a posteriori estimator; Maximum likelihood estimator; Skew normal; Skew symmetric; Skew t

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873998459     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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