Symmetric and Asymmetric Distributions Theoretical Developments and Applications

• Other Authors: Gómez Déniz, Emilio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; positive and negative skewness; ordering; fitting distributions; Epsilon-skew-Normal; Epsilon-skew-Cauchy; bivariate densities; generalized Cauchy distributions; asymmetric bimodal distribution; bimodal; maximum likelihood; slashed half-normal distribution; kurtosis; likelihood; EM algorithm; flexible skew-normal distribution; skew Birnbaum-Saunders distribution; bimodality; maximum likelihood estimation; Fisher information matrix; maximum likelihood estimates; type I and II censoring; skewness coefficient; Weibull censored data; truncation; half-normal distribution; probabilistic distribution class; normal distribution; identifiability; moments; power-normal distribution
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In recent years, the advances and abilities of computer software have substantially increased the number of scientific publications that seek to introduce new probabilistic modelling frameworks, including continuous and discrete approaches, and univariate and multivariate models. Many of these theor...