A Multivariate Flexible Skew-Symmetric-Normal Distribution: Scale-Shape Mixtures and Parameter Estimation via Selection Representation

Author:

Mahdavi Abbas,Amirzadeh Vahid,Jamalizadeh Ahad,Lin Tsung-IORCID

Abstract

Multivariate skew-symmetric-normal (MSSN) distributions have been recognized as an appealing tool for modeling data with non-normal features such as asymmetry and heavy tails, rendering them suitable for applications in diverse areas. We introduce a richer class of MSSN distributions based on a scale-shape mixture of (multivariate) flexible skew-symmetric normal distributions, called the SSMFSSN distributions. This very general class of SSMFSSN distributions can capture various shapes of multimodality, skewness, and leptokurtic behavior in the data. We investigate some of its probabilistic characterizations and distributional properties which are useful for further methodological developments. An efficient EM-type algorithm designed under the selection mechanism is advocated to compute the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of parameters. Simulation studies as well as applications to a real dataset are employed to illustrate the usefulness of the presented methods. Numerical results show the superiority of our proposed model in comparison to several existing competitors.

Funder

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous),General Mathematics,Chemistry (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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