The Skew-normal Distribution and Related Multivariate Families*

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00426.xzbMath1091.62046OpenAlexW2002591317WikidataQ56657721 ScholiaQ56657721MaRDI QIDQ5467688

Adelchi Azzalini

Publication date: 24 May 2006

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00426.x

zbMATH Keywords

graphical modelskew-elliptical distributionstochastic frontier modelselective samplinghidden truncation modelflexible parametric family

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Point estimation (62F10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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