On a Class of Symmetric Nonnormal Distributions with a Kurtosis of Three

DOI10.1007/978-1-4612-3990-1_6MaRDI QIDQ4872930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1 July 1996

Published in Statistical Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3990-1_6

zbMATH Keywords

estimating functionskurtosislimit laws for extremeslinear modelsmixturesnon-normal symmetric distributionssemiparametric modelsskewnesstest of normality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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• Normality of the Kimura 3-Parameter Model
• Sub-model identification in the context of flexible distributions obtained by perturbation of symmetric densities

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