Data from many applied fields exhibit both heavy tail and skewness behavior. For this reason, in the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in exploring parametric classes of ...

Circular statistics is a specialised subfield of statistics that focuses on analysing data points distributed on a circle. Unlike conventional linear statistics, circular data is characterised by ...

The t-distribution (or Student's t-distribution) has similarities to the normal distribution in shape, but with heavier tails. This applet allows users to drag a slider to change the degrees of ...

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) In this paper, we analyze the effect on posterior parameter distributions of four possible alternative prior ...