Statistical inference for a general class of asymmetric distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 427-443

  Arellano Valle, Reinaldo B ^a   Gómez, Héctor W ^b   Quintana, Fernando A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Skewness; Stochastic representation; Symmetric distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644282062     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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