학술논문

A Matrix Variate Closed Skew-Normal Distribution with Applications to Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
Document Type
Article
Source
Communications in Statistics: Theory & Methods. Jun2007, Vol. 36 Issue 9, p1691-1703. 13p.
Subject
*DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
*CHI-squared test
*QUADRATIC forms
*MULTIVARIATE analysis
*STATISTICS
Language
ISSN
0361-0926
Abstract
In this article, we introduce the matrix extension of the closed skew-normal distribution and give two constructions for it: a marginal one and another based on hidden truncation. Important basic properties of the distribution are presented such as its closure under linear transformation and moment generating function. We also give distributional results for quadratic forms involving random matrices distributed according to two particular cases of it. Using an additive construction, we derive a submodel which can be employed to describe the compound error structure of a very general multivariate stochastic frontier model. Finally, we consider the skew-elliptical extension of the proposed distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]