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Finite Mixtures of Multivariate Skew Laplace Distributions

Statistics Theory 2017-02-03 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we propose finite mixtures of multivariate skew Laplace distributions to model both skewness and heavy-tailedness in the heterogeneous data sets. The maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters of interest are obtained by using the EM algorithm. We give a small simulation study and a real data example to illustrate the performance of the proposed mixture model.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00628,
  title  = {Finite Mixtures of Multivariate Skew Laplace Distributions},
  author = {Fatma Zehra Doğru and Y. Murat Bulut and Olcay Arslan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00628},
  year   = {2017}
}