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Andishe 2013, 18(1): 45-58 Back to browse issues page
Skew distributions and application to analyzing Mobarakeh steel company medical data
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Nowadays there has been an increasing interest in more flexible distributions like skew distributions that can represent observed behavior more closely. These distributions are often used in the medical and behavioral sciences for real-valued random variables whose distributions are not symmetric. Because high Application of skew distributions, in this paper after a brief review of famous skew distributions, normal, t, skew normal and skew t distributions were fitted on a real data set taken from Mobarakeh Steel Company medical data and then best fit was selected using AIC.
Keywords: Hidden Truncation Method, Skew-Normal/Independent Distributions, Skew Normal, Skew T.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: General
Received: 2013/01/9 | Accepted: 2013/10/29 | Published: 2013/10/29


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