dc.creatorVenegas, Osvaldo
dc.creatorSalinas, Hugo S.
dc.creatorGallardo, Diego I.
dc.creatorBolfarine, Heleno
dc.creatorGomez, Hector W.
dc.date2018
dc.date2021-04-30T16:59:14Z
dc.date2021-04-30T16:59:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T22:07:31Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T22:07:31Z
dc.identifierJOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION,Vol.88,156-181,2018
dc.identifierhttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/3756
dc.identifier10.1080/00949655.2017.1381698
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3301076
dc.descriptionThis paper focuses on the development of a new extension of the generalized skew-normal distribution introduced in Gomez et al. [Generalized skew-normal models: properties and inference. Statistics. 2006;40(6):495-505]. To produce the generalization a new parameter is introduced, the signal of which has the flexibility of yielding unimodal as well as bimodal distributions. We study its properties, derive a stochastic representation and state some expressions that facilitate moments derivation. Maximum likelihood is implemented via the EM algorithm which is based on the stochastic representation derived. We show that the Fisher information matrix is singular and discuss ways of getting round this problem. An illustration using real data reveals that the model can capture well special data features such as bimodality and asymmetry.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherTAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.sourceJOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION
dc.subjectAsymmetry
dc.subjectbimodality
dc.subjectkurtosis
dc.subjectmaximum likelihood estimation
dc.subjectskew-symmetric distributions
dc.titleBimodality based on the generalized skew-normal distribution
dc.typeArticle


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