Characteristic function-based semiparametric inference for skew-symmetric models

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 471-490

  Potgieter, Cornelis J ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Characteristic function; Distributional invariance; Hypothesis testing; Semiparametric inference; Skew symmetric distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881550464     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2012.00822.x     Document Type: Article

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