Bayesian modeling using a class of bimodal skew-elliptical distributions

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2008.07.016zbMath1153.62018OpenAlexW2134765878MaRDI QIDQ999004

David Elal-Olivero, Héctor W. Gómez, Fernando A. Quintana

Publication date: 30 January 2009

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10533/130522

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic representationdensity estimationbimodalitylinear regressionskew-normal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Bayesian inference (62F15) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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Uses Software

• R
• S-PLUS
• WinBUGS
• sn

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