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Characteristic functions of scale mixtures of multivariate skew-normal distributions. (English) Zbl 1221.60020
Summary: We obtain the characteristic function of scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions both in the univariate and multivariate cases. The derivation uses the simple stochastic relationship between skew-normal distributions and scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions. In particular, we describe the characteristic function of skew-normal, skew-$$t$$, and other related distributions.

##### MSC:
 6e+11 Characteristic functions; other transforms 6.2e+11 Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions 6e+06 Probability distributions: general theory
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