Skewness and mixtures of normal distributions

DOI10.1080/03610928808829848MaRDI QIDQ3473032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas J. Schork, M. Anthony Schork

Publication date 1988

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928808829848

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationskewed distributionslikelihood ratio testMonte Carlo studynormalizing transformationsmixture distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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