A Multivariate Skew-Normal Mean-Variance Mixture Distribution and Its Application to Environmental Data with Outlying Observations

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 18 - Trang 244-258 - 2019
M. Tamandi1, N. Balakrishnan2, A. Jamalizadeh3, M. Amiri4
1Department of Statistics, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
3Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computers, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
4Department of Statistics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Tóm tắt

The presence of outliers, skewness, kurtosis, and dependency are well-known challenges while fitting distributions to many data sets. Developing multivariate distributions that can properly accomodate all these aspects has been the aim of several researchers. In this regard, we introduce here a new multivariate skew-normal mean-variance mixture based on Birnbaum-Saunders distribution. The resulting model is a good alternative to some skewed distributions, especially the skew-t model. The proposed model is quite flexible in terms of tail behavior and skewness, and also displays good performance in the presence of outliers. For the determination of maximum likelihood estimates, a computationally efficient Expectation-Conditional-Maximization (ECM) algorithm is developed. The performance of the proposed estimation methodology is illustrated through Monte Carlo simulation studies as well as with some real life examples.

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