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Activity Number: 638
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 13, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract #315074
Title: On Finite Mixtures of Some Skew Distributions
Author(s): Geoffrey McLachlan*
Companies: The University of Queensland
Keywords: skew distributions ; skew normal distributions ; skew t-distributions ; canonical fundamental skew t-distributions ; mixtures of skew distributions
Abstract:

In this talk we consider some recent results on the fitting of mixtures of some skew t-distributions, focusing on mixtures with component densities from the family of so-called canonical fundamental skew t-distributions (CFUST). We shall also consider some other families of non-normal distributions. A number of illustrative examples will be given.


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