• Title of article

    A Family of Skew-Slash Distributions and Estimation of its Parameters via an EM Algorithm

  • Author/Authors

    Farnoosh, R. iran university of science and technology - School of Mathematics, تهران, ايران , Nematollahi, N. allameh tabataba-i university - Department of Statistics, تهران, ايران , Rahnamaei, Z. islamic azad university - Department of Mathematics, ايران , Hajrajabi, A. iran university of science and technology - School of Mathematics, تهران, ايران

  • From page
    271
  • To page
    291
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a family of skew-slash distributions is defined and investigated. We define the new family by the scale mixture of a skew-elliptically distributed random variable with the power of a uniform random variable. This family of distributions contains slash-elliptical and skew-slash distributions. We obtain the moments and some distributional properties of the new family of distributions. In the special case of slash skew-t distribution, an EM-type algorithm is presented to estimate the parameters. Some applications are provided for illustrations.
  • Keywords
    Heavy tailed distributions , scale mixture distributions , skew , elliptical distributions , slash distribution.
  • Journal title
    Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society (JIRSS)
  • Journal title
    Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society (JIRSS)
  • Record number

    2578591