Multivariate restricted skew-normal scale mixture of Birnbaum-Saunders distribution

Authors

  • Hossein Samary Department of Statistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Zahra Khodadadi Department of Statistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Hedieh Jafarpour Department of Statistics, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30495/jme.v14i0.1195

Keywords:

EM-type algorithm, Birnbaum-Saunders distribu- tion, Multivariate scale mixture distribution, Restricted skew-normal distribu- tion.

Abstract

In spite of widespread use as well as theoretical properties of the multivariate scale mixture normal distributions, practical studies show a lack of stability and robustness against asymmetric features such as asymmetry and heavy tails. In this paper, we develop a new multivariate model by assuming the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution for the mixing variable in the scale mix- tures restricted skew-normal distribution. An analytically simple and efficient EM-type algorithm is adopted for iteratively computing maximum likelihood estimate of model parameters. To account standard errors, the observed in- formation matrix is derived analytically by offering an information-based ap-proach. Results obtained from real and simulated datasets are reported toillustrate the practical utility of the proposed methodology.

Author Biographies

Hossein Samary, Department of Statistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.

Phd Student of Statistics

Zahra Khodadadi, Department of Statistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.

Assistant Prof. of Statistics

Hedieh Jafarpour, Department of Statistics, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.

Assistant Prof. of Statistics

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Published

2019-09-22

Issue

Section

Vol. 14, No. 4, (2020)