Bayesian modeling using a class of bimodal skew-elliptical distributions

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

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

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 representation; density estimation; bimodality; linear regression; skew-normal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62J05: Linear regression; mixed models

62F03: Parametric hypothesis testing

62F15: Bayesian inference

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

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Uses Software

• R
• S-PLUS
• WinBUGS
• sn

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