Modelling of kurtosis and skewness : Bayesian inference and distribution theory

This thesis is concerned with the study of distributional and inferential aspects of some classes of flexible distributions used for modelling asymmetric data. In the last couple of decades, a great effort has been devoted to proposing new dis- tributions that can capture departures from normality....

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Main Author: Rubio, Francisco J.
Published: University of Warwick 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582361