TY - BOOK AU - Ahmad Hassan Saad Ibrahim AU - Samir Kamel Ashour , TI - On the skew-t distribution / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmad Hassan Saad Ibrahim , KW - Estimation for the two unknown parameters KW - Cumulative density function KW - Skew t distribution N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Institute of Statistical Studies and Research - Department of Mathematical Statistics; Issued also as CD N2 - The recently developed family of t distribution called skew t distribution (ST) introduced for the first time by azzalini and capitanio (2003) it has some important properties . It is a flexible model able to deal with data whose distribution show deviation from normality and includes student t distribution normal and skew normal distributions as special cases ER -