On Bayesian Modeling of Fat Tails and Skewness

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Publication:3839610

DOI10.2307/2669632zbMath0910.62024OpenAlexW4247462016MaRDI QIDQ3839610

Carmen Fernández, Mark F. J. Steel

Publication date: 26 April 1999

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2669632




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