A proof for the conjecture of characteristic function of the generalized skew-elliptical distributions

Tomer Shushi

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Abstract

In the paper of Genton and Loperfido (Genton and Loperfido (2005)), the authors introduced the multivariate generalized skew-elliptical distributions, which is a family of skewed distributions that contains the more familiar skew-normal and skew-Student-t distributions. In the same paper the authors conjectured the structure of the characteristic function of the proposed family of distributions. In this short letter we prove their conjecture.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)301-304
Number of pages4
JournalStatistics and Probability Letters
Volume119
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

  • Characteristic function
  • Generalized skew elliptical distributions
  • Skewed distributions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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