Jones, M. C.
(2002).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00297 |
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Abstract
In this paper, I note the pedagogical advantages of an existing, but largely ignored, simple symmetric distribution on the real line: Student's t-distribution on 2 degrees of freedom. The t2-distribution has particularly simple forms for its distribution and quantile functions, and these lead to simply calculated values for a whole host of basic properties of the distribution. In addition, distributions of order statistics from the t2-distribution lead to a recently introduced skew t family of distributions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2002 Royal Statistical Society |
| ISSN: | 0039-0526 |
| Keywords: | distribution theory; L-moment; quantile function; skew t-distribution; student's t-distribution; 2 degrees of freedom |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 22665 |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Frain |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2010 11:50 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:44 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/22665 |
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