Heuristically deciding between normal and skew normal distributions for describing the data on a response variable and an explanatory variable

DOI10.1080/15598608.2013.823581MaRDI QIDQ2320894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Debarshi Dey, Subir Ghosh

Publication date 27 August 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/15598608.2013.823581

zbMATH Keywords

likelihoodlinear approximationmaximum likelihoodMill's ratiomodel selectionnormal distributionshape parameterskew normal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05)

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