Skew-Elliptical Distributions and Their Applications
Subtitle: A Journey Beyond Normality
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: July 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781584884316
Subjects: Probability & statistics; Skew fields; Multivariate analysis; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics / Statistics; Distribution (Probability theo; Distribution (Probability theory)
First sentence: With the term skew-normal (SN) we refer to a parametric class of probability distributions that extends the normal distribution by an additional shape parameter that regulates the skewness, allowing for a continuous variation from normality to non-normality.