Minimum Hellinger distance based inference for scalar skew-normal and skew-t distributions

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Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-137

  Greco, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estimating function; Hellinger distance; Maximum likelihood; Nonparametric density estimate; Skew normal; Skew t

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027954320     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-010-0191-5     Document Type: Article

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