Data projections by skewness maximization under scale mixtures of skew-normal vectors

DOI10.1007/s11634-020-00388-6zbMath1459.62075MaRDI QIDQ2201327

Jorge M. Arevalillo, Hilario Navarro

Publication date: 29 September 2020

Published in: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. ADAC (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-020-00388-6

zbMATH Keywords

skew-normal; scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions; maximal skewness projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H10: Multivariate distribution of statistics

62H30: Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)

62H05: Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory

Uses Software

• sn
• MaxSkew

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