Skew-elliptical distributions and their applications
Subtitle: a journey beyond normality
By: edited by Marc G. Genton
Contributors: Genton, Marc G
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Distribution (Probability theory); Skew fields; Multivariate analysis
Description: "This book reviews the state-of-the-art advances in skew-elliptical distributions and provides many new developments in a single volume, collecting theoretical results and applications previously scattered throughout the literature. The main goal of this research area is to develop flexible parametric classes of distributions beyond the classical normal distribution. The book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses theory and inference for skew-elliptical distributions. The second part presents applications and case studies, in areas such as economics, finance, oceanography, climatology, environmetrics, engineering, image precessing, astronomy, and biomedical science."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-376) and index