Short-tailed distributions and inliers

TEST - Tập 17 - Trang 282-296 - 2007
Ayşen D. Akkaya1, Moti L. Tiku1,2
1Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Tóm tắt

We consider two families of short-tailed distributions (kurtosis less than 3) and discuss their usefulness in modeling numerous real life data sets. We develop estimation and hypothesis testing procedures which are efficient and robust to short-tailed distributions and inliers.

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