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A note on skew-elliptical distributions and linear functions of order statistics

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Linear functions of order statistics from bivariate, exchangeable, continuous and elliptical random vectors have a skew-elliptical distribution. This result generalizes previous ones on order statistics and skewed distributions.

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  • Loperfido, Nicola, 2008. "A note on skew-elliptical distributions and linear functions of order statistics," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(18), pages 3184-3186, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:78:y:2008:i:18:p:3184-3186
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    2. Jamalizadeh, A. & Mehrali, Y. & Balakrishnan, N., 2009. "Recurrence relations for bivariate t and extended skew-t distributions and an application to order statistics from bivariate t," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 53(12), pages 4018-4027, October.
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    6. Jamalizadeh, A. & Balakrishnan, N., 2009. "Prediction in a trivariate normal distribution via a linear combination of order statistics," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 79(21), pages 2289-2296, November.
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